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        <title><![CDATA[Partial And Complete Equality-Of-Opportunity Orderings]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Using The P90/P10 Index To Measure US Inequality Trends With Current Population Survey Data: A View From Inside The Census Bureau Vaults]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Does Italy Need Family Income Taxation?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Household Wealth Distribution In Spain: The Role Of Housing And Financial Wealth]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Occupational And Industrial Segregation Of Female And Male Workers in Spain: An Alternative Approach]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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 R&iacute;o (2007), along with some new...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Consumption Heals Producers: The Effect Of Fair Trade On Marginalised Producers~ Health And Productivity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Concerned consumers in the US and Europe are increasingly willing to pay an &quot;Ethical premium&quot; for the social and environmental value of fair trade products. One of the fair trade criteria (aimed...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Consumption Generates Social Capital: Creating Room For Manoeuvre For Pro-Poor Policies]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Driving Force Of Labor Force Participation In Developed Countries]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Labor Supply Responses Of Italian Women To Minimum Income Policies]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Optimal Taxation, Social Contract And The Four Worlds Of Welfare Capitalism]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Is Fair Trade Honey Sweeter? An Empirical Analysis On The Effect Of Affiliation On Productivity]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/is-fair-trade-honey-sweeter-an-empirical-analysis-on-the-effect-of-affiliation-on-productivity/2561457]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:45:32 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Measurement And Identification Of Asset-Poor Households: A Cross-National Comparison Of Spain And The United Kingdom]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Effects Of Inequality On Growth: A Survey Of The Theoretical And Empirical Literature]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:41:26 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Measuring Economic Insecurity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:39:23 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Virtuous Interactions In Removing Exclusion: The Link Between Foreign Market Access And Access To Education]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/virtuous-interactions-in-removing-exclusion-the-link-between-foreign-market-access-and-access-to-education/2560971]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:38:19 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Time Use And Time Budgets: Improvements, Future Challenges And Recommendations]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/time-use-and-time-budgets-improvements-future-challenges-and-recommendations/2560959]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:36:08 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pro-Poor Growth And The Lognormal Income Distribution]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/pro-poor-growth-and-the-lognormal-income-distribution/2560955]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:35:07 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Income And Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty In Six Latin American Countries]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:33:02 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Tax - Benefit Incidence. The Mexican Experience During The Last Twenty Years]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:32:00 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Transport Consumption Inequalities And Redistributive Effects Of Taxes: A Repeated Cross-Sectional Evaluation On French Household Data]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This paper evaluates transport consumption inequalities among French households, investigates their temporal dynamics, and estimates the redistributive effects of taxes on different commodity...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:30:58 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Informality And Poverty: Are These Processes Dynamically Interrelated? Evidence From Argentina]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Measuring Poverty Using Both Income And Wealth: A Cross-Country Comparison Between The U.S. And Spain]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Inequality Of Opportunity And Growth]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:26:51 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Accounting For Family Background When Designing Optimal Income Taxes: A Microeconometric Simulation Analysis]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/accounting-for-family-background-when-designing-optimal-income-taxes-a-microeconometric-simulation-analysis/2560927]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:25:50 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fair And Unfair Income Inequalities In Europe]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/fair-and-unfair-income-inequalities-in-europe/2560921]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:22:44 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Global Poverty Estimates: Present And Future]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:18:38 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Distributions In Motion: Economic Growth, Inequality, And Poverty Dynamics]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/distributions-in-motion-economic-growth-inequality-and-poverty-dynamics/2560911]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:17:36 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Evaluating Welfare Reform Under Program Heterogeneity And Alternative Measures Of Success]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/evaluating-welfare-reform-under-program-heterogeneity-and-alternative-measures-of-success/2560907]]></link>
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        <description><![CDATA[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 -...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Redistributive Effects In A Dual Income Tax System]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Beyond The Joneses: Inter-Country Income Comparisons And Happiness]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/whitepapers/beyond-the-joneses-inter-country-income-comparisons-and-happiness/2560901]]></link>
        <s:doctype><![CDATA[White Papers]]></s:doctype>
        <description><![CDATA[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...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:12:29 -0800</pubDate>
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