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Chapter 15. Poverty and Aging
Marchand, J.; Smeeding, T. - In: Handbook of the economics of population aging : Volume 1, (pp. 905-950). 2016
This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as its alleviation, with particular attention to the most vulnerable individuals at each end of the age distribution. The measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its...
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Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective
Alvaredo, Facundo; Saez, Emmanuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
This paper presents series on top shares of income and wealth in Spain over the 20th century using personal income and … wealth tax return statistics. Top income shares are highest in the 1930s, fall sharply during the first two decades of the … Franco dictatorship, and have increased slightly since the 1960s, and especially since the mid-1990s. The top 0.01% income …
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Benessere economico e felicità in Italia
Biancotti, Claudia; D'Alessio, Giovanni - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 98 (2008) 4, pp. 39-78
In recent years, a vast literature has focused on thè mie played by economic variables in determining the perceived well-being of individuals. Analyses conducted so far show that economic aspects explain only a part of the variability in happiness: other profiles, such as health and family...
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Do middle classes bring about institutional reforms?
Loayza, Norman; Rigolini, Jamele; Llorente, Gonzalo - In: Economics Letters 116 (2012) 3, pp. 440-444
cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditure. When the size of … the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US dollars a day in purchasing power …
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Who owns the robots rules the world : workers can benefit from technology that substitutes robots or other machines for their work by owning part of the capital that replaces them
Freeman, Richard B. - 2015
Robots, that is any sort of machinery from computers to artificial intelligence programs that provides a good substitute for work currently performed by humans, can increasingly replace workers, even highly skilled professionals, and thus reduce opportunities for good jobs and pay. But, with...
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Modeling inequity aversion in a dictator game with production
Rodríguez-Lara, Ismael; Moreno-Garrido, Luis - In: Games 3 (2012) 4, pp. 138-149
We expand upon the previous models of inequity aversion of Fehr and Schmidt [1], and Frohlich et al. [2], which assume that dictators get disutility if the final allocation of surplus deviates from the equal split (egalitarian principle) or from the subjects' production (libertarian principle)....
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Verbraucherschutz als Teil der Marktordnung
Käseberg, Thorsten - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 93 (2013) 1, pp. 33-38
Moderne Marktordnungen schützen den Verbraucher vor Schäden und sichern den Leistungswettbewerb und die Funktionsfähigkeit von Märkten. Wettbewerbsorientierte Verbraucherpolitik und verbraucherorientierte Wettbewerbspolitik ergänzen sich dabei. Die Verhaltensökonomik zeigt allerdings, dass...
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Labor income dynamics and the insurance from taxes, transfers and the family
Blundell, Richard W.; Graber, Michael; Mogstad, Magne - 2014
What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks …. We let individuals with di fferent education levels have a separate income process; and within each skill group, we allow … the income processes diff er systematically by age, skill level and their interaction. To accurately describe labor income …
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Dividing the pie in Brazil : income distribution, social policies and the new middle class
Arnold, Jens Matthias; Jalles, João Tovar - 2014
Brazil has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality. This reduction is explained by strong growth but also by effective social policies. Besides growth, public services and cash transfers have played the biggest role, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa...
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Improving the well-being of Canadians
Jarrett, Peter - 2021
For many years now, a growing number of economists, policy makers, and civil society groups have pointed to the limits of using only GDP as the primary measure of national economic progress. Accordingly, a progressively greater focus has been placed on the concept of well-being and its optimal...
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