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Where does the surplus go? Disentangling the capital-labor distributive conflict
Bogliacino, Francesco; Guarascio, Dario; Cirillo, Valeria - 2015
The evidence on growing inequality in OECD countries has raised an important debate over its main drivers, pointing out an increasing importance of the capital-labour conflict. In this contribution, we aim at disentangling the role of some of the forces shaping this process. Our identification...
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Chronicle of a deceleration foretold: Income inequality in Latin America in the 2010s
Gasparini, Leonardo; Cruces, Guillermo; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2015
After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the result of two set of reasons. First, several of the...
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On the Measurement of Long-Run Income Inequality: Empirical Evidence from Norway, 1875-2013
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Tony; Modalsli, Jorgen Heibo - 2017
In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes and social support. This paper presents a new methodology...
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Should egalitarians expropriate philanthropists?
Dasgupta, Indraneel; Kanbur, Ravi - 2008
Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one's wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption. We...
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Impact of education on inequality across the wage distribution profile in Cameroon: 2005-10
Baye, Francis Menjo - 2015
This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … actual distribution and a snowballing effect when moving up the wage distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418626
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A Distribution in Motion: The Case of Argentina
Cruces, Guillermo; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2008
This paper documents the changes in the income distribution in Argentina from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s. Over the … the transition contributed to the particular severity of the income distribution changes. The macro crises and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429284
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A Turning Point? Recent Developments on Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Gasparini, Leonardo; Cruces, Guillermo; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2009
This paper documents patterns and recent developments on different dimensions of inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). New comparative international evidence confirms that LAC is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world. Income inequality has fallen...
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Decreasing wage mobility in Germany
Gernandt, Johannes - 2009
distribution. Individual wage mobility decreased between 1984/1987 and 2004/2007, while inequality increased steadily from the mid … 1990s onwards. Mobility is highest in the middle section of the distribution. Better qualified persons, younger persons and … individuals moving downwards in the wage distribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299075
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Changes in the distribution of wealth in China, 1995 - 2002
Li, Shi; Zhao, Renwei - 2007
his paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national …, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth distribution among Chinese households. Our analysis indicates that the wealth … distribution in China as a whole became much more unequal in 2002 than it was in 1995. The housing reform, in which public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284731
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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies
Thoresen, Thor Olav - 1995
A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families with preschool children, from today's subsidisation of spaces at child...
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