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This paper deals with the relationship between decentralisation, regional economic development, and income inequality … Western Europe has an effect on within regional interpersonal inequality. Second, whether this potential relationship is … decentralisation is associated with lower interpersonal income inequality, but as regional income rises, further decentralisation is …
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inequality, education, human development, and growth by employing spatial exploratory data analysis (ESDA) techniques to data on … finding is that the distribution of district wise income inequality, income, education attainment, growth, and development …
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initially associated with an increase in income inequality and later followed by a decline in inequality, is supported by … changes in income distribution, and draws on disparate sets of statistical data to trace trends in income inequality in … Indonesia. The paper concludes that the evidence for Indonesia suggests an increase in inequality during the 1970s and a …
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The Gini coefficient or index is perhaps one of the most used indicators of social and economic conditions. In this paper we characterize the Gini index as the unique function that satisfies the properties of scale invariance, symmetry, proportionality and convexity in similar rankings....
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Slovenia belongs to a group of EU member states that have reduced their personal income tax burden during the current financial and economic crisis. The latest changes, introduced in the personal income tax system during the last two years, have primarily reduced the tax burden on low-income...
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the bottom 90%. Half of this inequality effect is attributable to gains of the 90th percentile over the 10th percentile … that explains movements of labour's share of income. What caused rising income inequality? Economists have placed too much …
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In 2007 Slovenia launched a comprehensive reform of its tax system. To estimate the different proposals (including a flat-tax proposal) and their overall effect on individual taxpayers and government budget a static micro-simulation model was constructed and combined with a computable general...
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It is often presumed that Gini coefficient values taken to reflect high income inequality are largely due to some … combination of socioeconomic factors that gives rise to inequality of opportunities. We demonstrate, using computer simulations … not prove that opportunities are in reality fairly equal, it does suggest that inequality of opportunities is not …
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In this paper, we revisit the association between happiness and inequality. We argue that the interaction between the …, income inequality is perceived more negatively with increased perceived fairness, due to the need for unexpected policy …
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We argue that perceived fairness of the income generation process affects the association between income inequality and … income redistribution. Income inequality is predicted to have a more favorable impact on subjective wellbeing for individuals … differences in individual tolerance for income inequality, and the predicted influence of actual fairness. …
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