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. Given stark inequalities by race in South Africa, this paper constructs a full set of race-disaggregated National Transfer … at older ages between race groups suggest that South Africa's second demographic dividend may be overstated by reliance …
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Income disparities by race are large and persistent in the U.S., and shifts in economic cycles often exacerbate these …
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race marriage gap remains, albeit sometimes in reduced magnitude, even after controlling for economic attributes of … race gap is explained in part by disparities in unobserved earning capacities between black and white men. In doing so … white residual earnings, the race gap disappears and even shows strong signs of greater marriage propensities in the black …
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Structural trends not directly related to labour market functioning and redistribution have made a sizeable contribution to inequality and poverty in Sweden, but occupy only limited space in the income inequality debate. To fill this gap, we put a quarter of a century of rising inequality in...
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Since 1970, the share of Black individuals living in suburbs of larger cities has risen from 16 to 36 percent. We present three facts illustrating how this suburbanization has changed spatial inequality. First, suburbanization entirely accounts for Black households' relative improvements in...
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This paper estimates the distribution of personal wealth in South Africa by combining tax microdata, household surveys, and macroeconomic balance sheet statistics. We systematically compare estimates of the wealth distribution obtained by direct measurement of net worth, rescaling of reported...
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'mulatos' —the mixed-race descendent from European, Indigenous, and African population. However, Latin American countries have … veiled income inequalities between racial groups through mestizaje identity or the 'Cosmic Race'. Using LAPOP … taxation in income or 'tagging' could decrease race-based disparities and improve economic development …
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Existing studies of trust formation in U.S. metropolitan areas have found that trust is lower when there is more income inequality and greater racial fragmentation. I add to this literature by examining the role of income inequality between racial groups (racial income inequality). I find that...
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The Great Recession had a tremendous impact on low-income Americans, in particular black and Latino Americans. The losses in terms of employment and earnings are matched only by the losses in terms of real wealth. In many ways, however, these losses are merely a continuation of trends that have...
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households? We find that neighborhood sorting by income and race cannot be explained by financial constraints: High-income, high …
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