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The theoretical foundation for this text is the one presented by Florida (2002a, 2002b, 2005). He discusses the importance of a vibrant society and also of a highly diversified population for the attraction of talented and creative people. This attraction would promote a concentration of this...
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. 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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household income, and the impact on the household income inequality per capita in Brazil for the period 1981-2002. The data are … inequality of per capita household income. The increase in the contribution of women's earnings to inequality is mostly due to …
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Earnings equations for occupied persons in the state of Minas Gerais are estimated using data from the 2000 Demographic Census of Brazil. Such equations allow us to evaluate the effect of age, gender, schooling, color (race), position in the occupation, weekly working time and other factors on...
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