Search Results - subject:"Income inequalities"

Les classes moyennes peuvent-elles dynamiser la croissance du PIB dans les économies émergentes latino-américaines et asiatiques ?

Salama, Pierre - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n° 3 (2014) 3, pp. 141-157

One can observe a tendency to an increase in the middle class whatever the criterion of membership adopted. With a broad definition of the middle class, the vulnerable group tends to lose importance and the heterogeneity of this group increases. On the contrary, the choice of a narrow definition...

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Gainers and losers from economic growth and economic recession

Kabat, Ladislav; Bojnec, Štefan; Stávková, Jana - In: Ekonomický časopis : časopis pre ekonomickú … 61 (2013) 1, pp. 3-23

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Intergenerational and socioeconomic gradients of child obesity

Costa-Font, Joan; Gil, Joan - In: Social Science & Medicine 93 (2013) C, pp. 29-37

intergenerational gradients. Results are suggestive of a high income effect in child obesity, alongside evidence that income … inequalities have doubled in just three years with a pure income effect accounting for as much as 72–66% of these income inequality …

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Labor market integration and migration: impacts on skill formation and the wage structure

BEHRENS, Kristian; SATO, Yasuhiro - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006

We analyze the impacts of labor market integration and migration on skill formation, wage structures, and per capita GDP of host and source countries. To do so, we propose a model in which heterogeneous agents invest in the acquisition of skills, and in which ﬁnal good production exhibits...

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Global Patterns of Income and Health: Facts, Interpretations, and Policies

Deaton, Angus S. - eSocialSciences - 2006

People in poor countries live shorter lives than people in rich countries so that, if we scale income by some index of health, there is more inequality in the world than if we consider income alone. Such international inequalities in life expectancy decreased for many years after 1945, and the...

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Health Inequalities, Social Cohesion and Social Capital: An Exploration

Yadavendu, Vijay Kumar - eSocialSciences - 2006

This paper claims that the roots and remedies of health inequalities reflected in the major academic debates that culminated with full force towards the turn of the last century, have done little to usher in a radical change in public health discourse. There has been a hesitation to understand...

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Horizontal and Vertical Redistribution and Micro-simulation.

Savard, Luc; Mussard, Stéphane - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2005

This paper proposes many indicators of vertical and horizontal redistribution throughout a generalized technique of Gini decomposition. Using the TD/BU micro-simulation models with externalities, we simulate income distributions and income source distributions for seven educational groups in...

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The relative income hypothesis: does it exist over time? Evidence from the BHPS.

Lindley, Joanne Kathryn; Lorgelly, Paula - Department of Economics, University of Sheffield - 2005

The relative income hypothesis suggests that income inequality has a detrimental affect on people´s health. This previously well accepted relationship has recently come under scrutiny. Some claim it is a statistical artefact, while others argue that aggregate level data are not sophisticated...

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Effet du développement financier sur les inégalités de revenus au travers des investissements productifs et éducatifs

BRESSON, Florent - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2004

Many authors have demonstrated that credit market imperfections lead to situations of permanent income inequalities … 130 countries from 1960 to 1999, confirm their importance in determining the level of income inequalities but with effects … of income inequalities (increasingly with the level of income per capita), there is a narrowing effect through the …

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Increase in the American society income inequalities and the United States tax policy in 1975-2008

Pawe³ Uminski - In: Ekonomia i Prawo VI/2010 (2010), pp. 419-434

changes are compared to american families income inequalities index. …

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