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Housing Expenditures and Income Inequality [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018 Abstract The trend of rising income inequality in Germany since the mid-1990s is strongly amplified when considering income after housing expenditure. The income share of housing expenditure rose disproportionally for the bottom income quintile and fell for the top quintile. Factors contributing to these trends include declining relative
Dustmann, C +2 more
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Jurnal Ekonomi dan Studi Pembangunan, 2019 This study provides evidences about the determinants of income inequality in 31 sampled countries of Europe. Prior to implementing the empirical research, the study identifies the factors, which according to theories, affects the level of income ...
saad buba +3 more
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The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor +3 more
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Romanian households’ income inequality [PDF]
Revista Română de Statistică, 2010 This paper presents the results of the measurement of Romanianhouseholds’ income inequality during 1995-2008 years. The measurementis based on a set of inequality indicators, estimated by using data collected by household budget surveys. The estimates of
Maria MOLNAR
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Innovation and Top Income Inequality [PDF]
The Review of Economic Studies, 2015 AbstractIn this article, we use cross-state panel and cross-U.S. commuting-zone data to look at the relationship between innovation, top income inequality and social mobility. We find positive correlations between measures of innovation and top income inequality. We also show that the correlations between innovation and broad measures of inequality are
Aghion, Philippe +4 more
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?
Agribusiness, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
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The inequality impacts of the carbon tax in China
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2022 Previous research has acknowledged that climate change is likely to expand the wealth gap, and climate policies may further increase inequality. Nevertheless, little research has focused on how climate policies affect inequality.
Shuyang Chen
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Consumption Inequality and Income Uncertainty [PDF]
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1998 Abstract The use of current income in studies of inequality is open to the obvious criticism that current income may not reflect the longer run level of resources available to a household or an individual. Temporarily high or low incomes may exaggerate the true position of the household when borrowing or saving is allowed to smooth ...
Richard Blundell, Ian Preston
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Dimensions of the AI Divide: Digital Inequality and Psychological Consequences
AI &Innovation, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational component of contemporary social, economic, and political life. Yet, the ways in which AI reshapes patterns of exclusion beyond questions of access and technical capability remain insufficiently theorized.
Christos Papaioannou
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American Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Our general interest is in global trade loss from livestock pathogens, specifically exports. We adopt a causal inference approach that considers animal disease outbreaks over time as non‐staggered binary treatments with the potential for switching in (infection) and out of treatment (recovery) within the sample period. The outcome evolution of
Mohammad Maksudur Rahman +1 more
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