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income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income idfferences among … certain population subgroups with apparent policy implications. The degree to which overall inequality is attributable to … inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by …
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responses suggest that important axioms which serve to differentiate polarisation from inequality - e.g. increased …
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Inequality aversion and risk aversion are widely assumed features of economic models. But a review of the literature … designed to separate inequality aversion from risk aversion. In a set of laboratory experiments, subjects chose between two … alternative with constant risk level implies a higher level of inequality aversion. The experiment was conducted among 211 eight …
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The analysis of inequality is placed in the context of recent developments in economics and statistics. Prepared for …
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This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …
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In this paper we analyse data that were collected continuously between 1950 and 1974 from a rural area of The Gambia to determine the effects of kin on child mortality. Multilevel event history models are used to demonstrate that having a living mother, maternal grandmother or elder sisters had...
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Using data from the National Family and Health Survey 3, India, this paper measures and validates the extent of multidimensional poverty and examines the linkages of poverty level with child health in India. Multidimensional poverty is measured in the domain of education, health and living...
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growing inequality in PC ownership over the 1980s and 1990s. Analysis of ownership patterns of four other household consumer … durables suggests that there may be significant limitations to relying solely on the market to eradicate PC inequality quickly. …
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to research on poverty, well-being and inequality, where there is a need to define and justify the thresholds and …
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