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U.S. Earnings Mobility: Comparing Survey-Based And Administrative- Based Estimates
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors use a new dataset that contains individually reported total annual labor earnings from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) linked to employer-reported...
Provided by ECINEQ
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Beyond The Joneses: Inter-Country Income Comparisons And Happiness
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The paper provides some novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the wellbeing of top income...
Provided by ECINEQ
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Redistributive Effects In A Dual Income Tax System
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Equity issues of the dual income tax have been left aside in the field of economics. Since a dual income tax needs different modeling than a comprehensive one this paper offers firstly a...
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Evaluating Welfare Reform Under Program Heterogeneity And Alternative Measures Of Success
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims at presenting an assessment of welfare reforms under a framework of program heterogeneity and alternative measures of success. The authors focus on a specific welfare program -...
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Distributions In Motion: Economic Growth, Inequality, And Poverty Dynamics
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The joint determination of aggregate economic growth and distributional change has been studied empirically from at least three different perspectives. A macroeconomic approach that relies on...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Global Poverty Estimates: Present And Future
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors review the recent empirical literature on global poverty, focusing on key methodological aspects. These include the choice of welfare indicator, poverty line and purchasing power...
Provided by ECINEQ
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Fair And Unfair Income Inequalities In Europe
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses the extent of income inequality and opportunity inequality in 25 European countries. The present work contributes to understanding the origin of standard income inequality,...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Accounting For Family Background When Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper is to introduce and adopt a generalized version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which they call extended EOp, for analyzing second-best optimal income...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Inequality Of Opportunity And Growth
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Theoretical and empirical studies exploring the effects of income inequality upon growth reach a disappointing inconclusive result. This paper postulates that one reason for this ambiguity is that...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Measuring Poverty Using Both Income And Wealth: A Cross-Country Comparison Between The U.S. And Spain
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors study the correspondence between a household's current income and its vulnerability to income shocks in two developed countries: the U.S. and Spain. Vulnerability is...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Informality And Poverty: Are These Processes Dynamically Interrelated? Evidence From Argentina
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Poverty and informal employment are often regarded as correlated phenomena. Many empirical studies have shown that informal employment has a causal impact on household poverty, mainly through low...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Transport Consumption Inequalities And Redistributive Effects Of Taxes: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Evaluation On French Household Data
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper evaluates transport consumption inequalities among French households, investigates their temporal dynamics, and estimates the redistributive effects of taxes on different commodity...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Tax - Benefit Incidence. The Mexican Experience During The Last Twenty Years
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a tax-benefit incidence analysis for a large time period. The objective is to know if has been income redistribution across Mexican households during the last twenty years,...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Income And Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty In Six Latin American Countries
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay, for the period 1992 - 2006. Six...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Pro-Poor Growth And The Lognormal Income Distribution
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A widely accepted criterion for pro-poorness of an income growth pattern is that it should reduce a (chosen) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately....
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Time Use And Time Budgets: Improvements, Future Challenges And Recommendations
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labor; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value...
Provided by ECINEQ
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Virtuous Interactions In Removing Exclusion: The Link Between Foreign Market Access And Access To Education
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors devise a retrospective panel data approach to evaluate the effects of fair trade affiliation on the schooling decisions of a sample of Thai organic rice producers across the past 20...
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Measuring Economic Insecurity
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide a systematic treatment of the notion of economic insecurity, assuming that an individual's sentiment of insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
The Effects Of Inequality On Growth: A Survey Of The Theoretical And Empirical Literature
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Basically, the extensive theoretical and empirical literature on the interactions between growth/development and distribution can be divided into two main approaches. The first one examines the...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Measurement And Identification Of Asset-Poor Households: A Cross-National Comparison Of Spain And The United Kingdom
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper is concerned with the analysis of the wealth dimension of poverty in developed countries, which can hardly be measured by means of the information on household income. The authors focus...
Provided by ECINEQ
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Is Fair Trade Honey Sweeter? An Empirical Analysis On The Effect Of Affiliation On Productivity
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors evaluate the impact of affiliation to Fair Trade on a sample of Chilean honey producers. Evidence from standard regressions and propensity score matching shows that affiliated farmers...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Optimal Taxation, Social Contract And The Four Worlds Of Welfare Capitalism
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Drawing from the formal setting of the optimal tax theory (Mirrlees 1971), the paper identifies the level of Rawlsianism of some European social planners starting from the observation of real data...
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White Papers
Labor Supply Responses Of Italian Women To Minimum Income Policies
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Minimum income policies are policies aimed at guarantee all citizens with a minimum level of income and at fighting social exclusion typically associated with extreme poverty. Theoretically, their...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
The Driving Force Of Labor Force Participation In Developed Countries
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The evolution of labor force participation rate is modeled using a lagged linear function of real economic growth, as expressed by GDP per capita. For the U.S., the model predicts at a two-year...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
When Consumption Generates Social Capital: Creating Room For Manoeuvre For Pro-Poor Policies
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Economic interactions are often accused of being neutral, or even of generating adverse effects, not only on the social fabric but also on a factor (social capital) which is regarded as the...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
When Consumption Heals Producers: The Effect Of Fair Trade On Marginalised Producers~ Health And Productivity
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Concerned consumers in the US and Europe are increasingly willing to pay an "Ethical premium" for the social and environmental value of fair trade products. One of the fair trade criteria (aimed...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Occupational And Industrial Segregation Of Female And Male Workers in Spain: An Alternative Approach
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper aims to analyze occupational and industrial segregation in the Spanish labor market by using the alternative tools proposed by Alonso-Villar and Del Río (2007), along with some new...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
The Household Wealth Distribution In Spain: The Role Of Housing And Financial Wealth
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors analyze the distribution of household wealth in Spain using the first wave of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances, conducted by the Bank of Spain in 2002. They find that wealth is...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Does Italy Need Family Income Taxation?
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The possible implications of using the family as opposed to the individual as the unit of taxation are not clear. This applies both to work incentives and distributional outcomes. In this paper...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Using The P90/P10 Index To Measure US Inequality Trends With Current Population Survey Data: A View From Inside The Census Bureau Vaults
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Partial And Complete Equality-Of-Opportunity Orderings
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a partial equality-of-opportunity ordering based on the inequality-of opportunity curve, a mechanism that gives preference to those who are worse in terms of opportunity....
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Unit-Consistent Aggregative Multidimensional Inequality Measures: A Characterization
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Inequality among people involves comparisons of social indicators such as income, health, education and so on. In recent years the number of studies both theoretical and empirical which take into...
Provided by ECINEQ
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Growth, Public Investment And Corruption With Failing Institutions
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Corruption is thought to prevent poor countries from catching-up. The authors analyze one channel through which corruption hampers growth: public investment can be distorted in favor of specific...
Provided by ECINEQ
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Cross-Country Income Mobility Comparisons Under Panel Attrition: The Relevance Of Weighting Schemes
July 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to present an assessment of the effects of panel attrition on income mobility comparisons for some EU-countries by using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). There are...
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Economic Liberalization With Rising Segmentation On China's Urban Labor Market
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The massive downsizing of the state-owned sector and the concomitant impressive growth of the private sector at the end of the 1990s have altered the nature of the Chinese labor market. By...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Economic Liberalization With Rising Segmentation On China's Urban Labor Market
June 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
The massive downsizing of the state-owned sector and the concomitant impressive growth of the private sector at the end of the 1990s have altered the nature of the Chinese labor market. By...
Provided by ECINEQ
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White Papers
Cross-Country Income Mobility Comparisons Under Panel Attrition: The Relevance Of Weighting Schemes
July 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims to present an assessment of the effects of panel attrition on income mobility comparisons for some EU-countries by using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). There are...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Growth, Public Investment And Corruption With Failing Institutions
March 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
Corruption is thought to prevent poor countries from catching-up. The authors analyze one channel through which corruption hampers growth: public investment can be distorted in favor of specific...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Unit-Consistent Aggregative Multidimensional Inequality Measures: A Characterization
April 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Inequality among people involves comparisons of social indicators such as income, health, education and so on. In recent years the number of studies both theoretical and empirical which take into...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Partial And Complete Equality-Of-Opportunity Orderings
June 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper proposes a partial equality-of-opportunity ordering based on the inequality-of opportunity curve, a mechanism that gives preference to those who are worse in terms of opportunity....
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Using The P90/P10 Index To Measure US Inequality Trends With Current Population Survey Data: A View From Inside The Census Bureau Vaults
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The March Current Population Survey (CPS) is the primary data source for estimation of levels and trends in labor earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Does Italy Need Family Income Taxation?
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The possible implications of using the family as opposed to the individual as the unit of taxation are not clear. This applies both to work incentives and distributional outcomes. In this paper...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
The Household Wealth Distribution In Spain: The Role Of Housing And Financial Wealth
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors analyze the distribution of household wealth in Spain using the first wave of the Spanish Survey of Household Finances, conducted by the Bank of Spain in 2002. They find that wealth is...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Occupational And Industrial Segregation Of Female And Male Workers in Spain: An Alternative Approach
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper aims to analyze occupational and industrial segregation in the Spanish labor market by using the alternative tools proposed by Alonso-Villar and Del Río (2007), along with some new...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
When Consumption Heals Producers: The Effect Of Fair Trade On Marginalised Producers~ Health And Productivity
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Concerned consumers in the US and Europe are increasingly willing to pay an "Ethical premium" for the social and environmental value of fair trade products. One of the fair trade criteria (aimed...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
When Consumption Generates Social Capital: Creating Room For Manoeuvre For Pro-Poor Policies
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Economic interactions are often accused of being neutral, or even of generating adverse effects, not only on the social fabric but also on a factor (social capital) which is regarded as the...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
The Driving Force Of Labor Force Participation In Developed Countries
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The evolution of labor force participation rate is modeled using a lagged linear function of real economic growth, as expressed by GDP per capita. For the U.S., the model predicts at a two-year...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Labor Supply Responses Of Italian Women To Minimum Income Policies
August 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Minimum income policies are policies aimed at guarantee all citizens with a minimum level of income and at fighting social exclusion typically associated with extreme poverty. Theoretically, their...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Optimal Taxation, Social Contract And The Four Worlds Of Welfare Capitalism
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Drawing from the formal setting of the optimal tax theory (Mirrlees 1971), the paper identifies the level of Rawlsianism of some European social planners starting from the observation of real data...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Is Fair Trade Honey Sweeter? An Empirical Analysis On The Effect Of Affiliation On Productivity
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The authors evaluate the impact of affiliation to Fair Trade on a sample of Chilean honey producers. Evidence from standard regressions and propensity score matching shows that affiliated farmers...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Measurement And Identification Of Asset-Poor Households: A Cross-National Comparison Of Spain And The United Kingdom
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper is concerned with the analysis of the wealth dimension of poverty in developed countries, which can hardly be measured by means of the information on household income. The authors focus...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
The Effects Of Inequality On Growth: A Survey Of The Theoretical And Empirical Literature
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Basically, the extensive theoretical and empirical literature on the interactions between growth/development and distribution can be divided into two main approaches. The first one examines the...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Measuring Economic Insecurity
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors provide a systematic treatment of the notion of economic insecurity, assuming that an individual's sentiment of insecurity depends on the current wealth level and its variations...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Virtuous Interactions In Removing Exclusion: The Link Between Foreign Market Access And Access To Education
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors devise a retrospective panel data approach to evaluate the effects of fair trade affiliation on the schooling decisions of a sample of Thai organic rice producers across the past 20...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Time Use And Time Budgets: Improvements, Future Challenges And Recommendations
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Time-use statistics offer a unique tool for exploring a wide range of policy concerns including social change; division of labor; allocation of time for household work; the estimation of the value...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Pro-Poor Growth And The Lognormal Income Distribution
September 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A widely accepted criterion for pro-poorness of an income growth pattern is that it should reduce a (chosen) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately....
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Income And Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty In Six Latin American Countries
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay, for the period 1992 - 2006. Six...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Tax - Benefit Incidence. The Mexican Experience During The Last Twenty Years
November 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents a tax-benefit incidence analysis for a large time period. The objective is to know if has been income redistribution across Mexican households during the last twenty years,...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Transport Consumption Inequalities And Redistributive Effects Of Taxes: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Evaluation On French Household Data
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper evaluates transport consumption inequalities among French households, investigates their temporal dynamics, and estimates the redistributive effects of taxes on different commodity...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Informality And Poverty: Are These Processes Dynamically Interrelated? Evidence From Argentina
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
Poverty and informal employment are often regarded as correlated phenomena. Many empirical studies have shown that informal employment has a causal impact on household poverty, mainly through low...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Measuring Poverty Using Both Income And Wealth: A Cross-Country Comparison Between The U.S. And Spain
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this paper the authors study the correspondence between a household's current income and its vulnerability to income shocks in two developed countries: the U.S. and Spain. Vulnerability is...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Inequality Of Opportunity And Growth
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Theoretical and empirical studies exploring the effects of income inequality upon growth reach a disappointing inconclusive result. This paper postulates that one reason for this ambiguity is that...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Accounting For Family Background When Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis
February 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper is to introduce and adopt a generalized version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which they call extended EOp, for analyzing second-best optimal income...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Fair And Unfair Income Inequalities In Europe
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper analyses the extent of income inequality and opportunity inequality in 25 European countries. The present work contributes to understanding the origin of standard income inequality,...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Global Poverty Estimates: Present And Future
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors review the recent empirical literature on global poverty, focusing on key methodological aspects. These include the choice of welfare indicator, poverty line and purchasing power...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Distributions In Motion: Economic Growth, Inequality, And Poverty Dynamics
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The joint determination of aggregate economic growth and distributional change has been studied empirically from at least three different perspectives. A macroeconomic approach that relies on...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Evaluating Welfare Reform Under Program Heterogeneity And Alternative Measures Of Success
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper aims at presenting an assessment of welfare reforms under a framework of program heterogeneity and alternative measures of success. The authors focus on a specific welfare program -...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Redistributive Effects In A Dual Income Tax System
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Equity issues of the dual income tax have been left aside in the field of economics. Since a dual income tax needs different modeling than a comprehensive one this paper offers firstly a...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
Beyond The Joneses: Inter-Country Income Comparisons And Happiness
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
The paper provides some novel evidence on the burgeoning literature on life satisfaction and relative comparisons by showing that in the last 30 years comparisons with the wellbeing of top income...
Provided by ECINEQ
-
White Papers
U.S. Earnings Mobility: Comparing Survey-Based And Administrative- Based Estimates
September 1, 2006, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors use a new dataset that contains individually reported total annual labor earnings from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) linked to employer-reported...
Provided by ECINEQ
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