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-2019. Relating our exposure to regulation measure to the CZ-level income inequality, computed from the Census records, we find that … heavier regulation is followed by higher income inequality, lower average income and higher unemployment in the affected CZs … identifying previously unknown, local effects of regulation on income inequality, exploring mechanisms through which they may …
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-2019. Relating our exposure to regulation measure to the CZ-level income inequality, computed from the Census records, we find that … heavier regulation is followed by higher income inequality, lower average income and higher unemployment in the affected CZs … identifying previously unknown, local effects of regulation on income inequality, exploring mechanisms through which they may …
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-2019. Relating our exposure to regulation measure to the CZ-level income inequality, computed from the Census records, we find that … heavier regulation is followed by higher income inequality, lower average income and higher unemployment in the affected CZs … identifying previously unknown, local effects of regulation on income inequality, exploring mechanisms through which they may …
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This paper documents and describes the evolution of income and consumption inequality in Bolivia between 1999 and 2011 …. We find that income and consumption inequality measured by the Gini in- dex both dropped 22% during the period we analyze …, making Bolivia the top performer in the Latin American region regarding income inequality reduction. To make a more complete …
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examines trends in average and median income and wealth indicators in Canada. Part two looks at the distribution of the income … and wealth of Canadians over time, including trends in poverty. Part three discusses trends in income fluctuations or … quintile has received the lion’s share of rising income and wealth. Looking at the nine headline indicators for which time …
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This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...
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This report has two main objectives. The first is to outline the development of the methodology for the measurement of economic security in the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and to provide updated estimates of the Index of Economic Security over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed...
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2008 – the month at which employment peaked in Canada – and May 2009, net employment fell by 362,500 persons. The negative … effects of unemployment go well beyond loss of income. Roughly 60 per cent of the newly unemployed, compared to about 40 per … cent in recent years, receive regular EI benefits, reflecting the concentration of employment losses among long term full …
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This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds that the IEWB advanced at a 1.20 per cent average...
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income inequality by 2030. However, the potential reduction can be fully accounted for by the projected convergence in … global economy, the debate on income disparities around the world has intensified. For the African, Caribbean and Pacific … for adjusted social and environmental sustainability measures of growth in these economies. Using Global Income …
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