Showing 1 - 10 of 97
these investments, output levels and growth. In this context, inequality plays a key role both as a determinant of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793414
level since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling is found to be rapidly decreasing, but we show that this result is … completely driven by the decline in illiteracy. Then, we turn to inequality in human capital and focus on a Mincerian production … capital inequality has increased since 1870, but does not exceed 10% of world income inequality. Next, we analyse the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930213
Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literatureoverstate … the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes in China, as well as the role played by regional differences in the … recent inequality rise. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788855
Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literature overstate … the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes in China, as well as the role played by regional differences in the … observed inequality rise duringthe 1990s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008790338
, perfect equality is no longer unimprovable. Our results throw light on the connections between inequality and collective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792633
budget) essentially comes down to inequality in access to the car. An analysis of recent changes in urban public transport …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793234
migration, reduces climate change, increases North-South inequality if DRTS are significant; (v) a greener technology reduces … long-run migration, provides a double- dividend in favor of the environment, reduces inequality if the migrants' impact to … overall climate change is large. The preference over the policies thus depends on whether the policy maker targets inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793579
This paper analyses the problems linked to the implementation of the Equal Labour Income Equalisation (ELIE) scheme proposed by Kolm (2005). It successively studies the influence of uncertainty in the knowledge of individual incomes, the impact of equivalence scales and finally the consequences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793731
already applied in the literature about equity in taxation, as the criterion for making rigorous inequality comparisons. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794212
The paper explores different applications of the Shapley value for either inequality or poverty measures. We first … investigate the problem of source decomposition of inequality measures, the so-called additive income sources inequality games … income sources inequality games provide dual results compared with Chantreuil and Trannoy's ones. We also investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794813