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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076936
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CAPITAL SOCIAL Y CALIDAD DE VIDA
Vivas, Alejandro; Acevedo, Alberto Alvarado - EconWPA - 2004
La formación de Capital social es un factor clave para el desarrollo de programas y proyectos dirigidos a la superación de la pobreza. La investigación hace explícitos los factores asociados a la generación de capital social en un proyecto de desarrollo llevado a cabo en un barrio pobre de...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134598
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Education, Inequality and Violent Crime in Minas Gerais
Puech, Frédéric - EconWPA - 2005
This paper presents an economic model of individual crime decision relying on relative deprivation and discusses the … role of education. It distinguishes between property and interpersonal crime and proposes an econometric estimation of the … upon interpersonal crime but not on violent property crime, which is mainly influenced by inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005134619
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Growth, Inequality and Well-Being: Comparisons across Space and Time
Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - EconWPA - 2004
We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561546
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Why we all do care about inequality (but are loath to admit it)
Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2004
This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561548
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Growth, Inequality and Well-Being: Intertemporal and Global Comparisons
Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - EconWPA - 2004
We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake intertemporal and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the intertemporal analysis are that the impact of these measures on temporal trends in well-being is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005561551