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In the Global South economic mobility across generations or intergenerational economic mobility is in and of itself an important topic for research with consequences for policy. This 'Element' surveys the area, conceptually and empirically.
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. At the village level, a land market does not influence the poverty outcome of the reform but reduces its inequality …
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Increased regional inequality has been a major concern in many emerging economies like China, India, Vietnam and … Thailand. However, even a large inequality is observed within the lagging regions. The objective of this paper is to look into … what are the sources of within region inequality using the community surveys and a census type of households in Western …
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This paper approaches the migrant’s motivation to remit from a new, behavioural perspective. We apply the well-established Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) using a structural equation model for the first time for this specific research question. Our micro-dataset stems from a 2009/10 survey,...
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-for example, to end poverty; (ii) proposes a new way to raise and govern international public funds; (iii) discusses the possible …
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Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …
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The relationship between socioeconomic status and health is dynamic and evolves throughout the adult life course. However, relatively little empirical attention has been directed to the role of health affecting lifestyle choices in explaining these dynamics. Using Norwegian repeated...
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This paper performs inequality decomposition by income sources using data from three different continents, using a … unified inequality decomposition approach. Household survey data from Ethiopia, Georgia and Korea are used for this purpose …-farm labor income by 1% uniformly results in a lower Gini index of inequality. These results shed light on the processes that …
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