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independent national statistical offices, committed to truthful communication. We also find that whether inequality in income …
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Although economic inequality has long been viewed as a cause of civil conflict, existing research has not found robust … empirical support for this relationship. This study explores the connections between inequality and civil conflict by focusing … data set with country- and group-level measures of inequality within and across ethnic groups. We then show that consistent …
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inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …
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This paper explores the combined effects of reductions in trade frictions, tariffs, and firing costs on firm dynamics, job turnover, and wage distributions. It uses establishment-level data from Colombia to estimate an open economy dynamic model that links trade to job flows in a new way. The...
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examine the cost in efficiency produced by the existing inequality in the distribution of wealth. …
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. In "cohesive" equilibria, all individuals conform to the standard of proper behaviour, income inequality is low and … response to larger inequality. In a "clustered" equilibrium skilled workers work above the mean while unskilled workers work … below. In such an equilibrium, income inequality is large and sentiments are biased in favor of the industrious. As …
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In this paper we study a behavioral model of conflict that provides a basis for choosing certain indices of dispersion as indicators for conflict. We show that the (equilibrium) level of conflict can be expressed as an (approximate) linear function of the Gini coefficient, the...
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To help explain differences between the US and EU "social contracts" as well as other cultural differences, we present a model of rational voting over redistribution where individual attitudes toward others are endogenously determined. Individuals differ in their productivities and their degree...
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. Income inequality among households has also widened. A unified model of marriage, divorce, educational attainment and married … income inequality. …
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We model the different ways in which precedents and contract standardization shape the development of markets and the law. In a setup where more resourceful parties can distort contract enforcement to their advantage, we find that the introduction of a standard contract reduces enforcement...
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