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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...

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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

The article analyses further develops the neo-dependency approach already presented by the same author and looks at recent time series trends in the structure of international capital penetration, international savings, and the dynamics of “unequal transfer” and their effects on social...

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The Marginal Utility of Income

Layard, Richard; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2007

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income increases. One needs this parameter for cost-benefit analysis, for optimal taxation and for the (Atkinson) measurement of inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large...

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A Study on Structure of the Economy of Udalguri Sub-Division, Assam (India)

Daimari, Prasen; Mishra, SK - EconWPA - 2005

of labour is near- zero and productivity of land provides only subsistence. Poverty keeps consumption and savings low …

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Poverty, Inequality and Permeability to Globalization Effects : A Study of Select Villages in Udalguri Subdivision of Assam

Mishra, SK; Daimari, Prasen - EconWPA - 2005

in the social spirit and prowess, so much needed to benefit from globalization. Acute poverty is the major structural … links to the market. Poverty cripples the very foundations of these possibilities. Therefore, under the prevailing …

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Income Inequality and Poverty in Front of and during the Economic Crisis: An Empirical Investigation for Germany 2002-2010

Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic … developments during the crisis but at least an increase of persons, who stayed within the poverty region, occurred between 2008 and …

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Distributional Effects of a Minimum Wage in a Welfare State: The Case of Germany

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013

A popular argument for a federal minimum wage is that it will prevent in-work poverty and reduce income inequality. We …

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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World

Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005

Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example of East Asia states, which recognized their position as...

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Why Are Middle-Aged People so Depressed?: Evidence from West Germany

Brockmann, Hilke - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2009

Does happiness vary with age? The evidence is inconclusive. Some studies show happiness to increase with age (Diener et al. 1999; Argyle 2001). Others hold that the association is U-shaped with either highest depression rates (Mroczek and Christian, 1998; Blanchflower and Oswald, 2008) or highest...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008611297

Poverty, Inequality, and Redistribution Under Lexicographic Social Welfare

Briones, Roehlano M. - EconWPA - 2004

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign … normative significance to the poverty line is to allow the welfare measure to exhibit a discrete loss from poverty (DLP) at z …

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