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shared. It has not been inclusive growth. Inequality in Asia is among the highest in the world. The richest man in Vietnam … inclusive to women, ethnic minorities and the LGBT community. How can Asia reduce inequality? What are the forces that determine …
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Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions;goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriatein the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based onthe EDF, an aggregation of differences in...
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We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...
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. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …
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Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight … household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality … rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is …
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This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … high contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA …
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results in inequality research. The authors find indications of substantial bias on income inequality and poverty as well as …
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In this paper we investigate the relationship between inequality and the environment in a growing economy from a … and show that inequality is harmful for the environment: the poorer the median voter relative to the average individual …
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absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …
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lower labour share in national income as well as in a growing income inequality, with the exception of some countries with … high initial income inequality. The neglect of concern for employment and inequality in the formulation of the Millennium … inequality is taken seriously, a refocus of development efforts is necessary, combining a greater share of development assistance …
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