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The article argues the need to preserve the pluralism in economics. The article examines: i) the nature of the knowledge and of its production; ii) the specificity of the knowledge production in economics and the historical and cultural conditionings of the knowledge; iii) the implications of the...
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The aim of this paper is to shed light on some conceptual, methodological and historical aspects about the use of evidence in Economics and, in particular, in Macroeconomics. We seek to pave the way for a deeper understanding about the normative criteria to guide the good use of evidence in...
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The aim of this paper is to shed light on some conceptual, methodological and historical aspects about the use of evidence in Economics and, in particular, in Macroeconomics. We seek to pave the way for a deeper understanding about the normative criteria to guide the good use of evidence in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015329790
. 287/2016) on poverty and inequality has been largely impressionistic to date. The present study tries to bridge this gap … the comparison of poverty and inequality indicators observed in 2015 with estimates for the full implementation of two …-the-minimum-wage poverty line) from the current 9.4 per cent to 11.1 per cent. Inequality would increase marginally. The Legislative version …
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poverty and inequality. To that end, we have used data from the 2001-2015 standard National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa … the programme was responsible for the 10 per cent of the reduction in inequality between 2001 and 2015. From 2001 to 2006 … observed reduction in inequality. Findings suggest that the targeting of the Programme is already very good and that the main …
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trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and … inequality than universal transfers. The hybrid model presents results close to those estimated for the targeted model and has …
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from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …
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2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …, Social Security contributed to surprisingly large increases in inequality due to the rise in pensions to the well …
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, it is shown that the inequality of that distribution is stable and that its degree of polarization has a decreasing trend …. Next, the paper analyses the changes in the inequality between permanent and temporary employees and between those with or … distribution within these worker categories. Finally, the paper shows that the share of regional differences in the inequality of …
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Inequality of income distribution in Brazil: the contribution of pensions and of other components of per capita … inequality of the income distribution. Next, it examines the data of the last National Sample Survey of Households of Brazil … and from other components of income influence income inequality in Brazil. Finally, it examines how each of these …
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