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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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The belief that it is fairer if communities are ``mixed'' can be traced at least to the late nineteenth century and the founders of the Garden City Movement. The idea is now firmly established in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and national policies. This article...
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This paper examines the process and outcomes of democratic decision-making in clubs where a club is defined by their sets of members whose preferences and decisions relate to the set of members in the club: the electorate to endogenous. Examples range from international organizations like the...
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House price capitalization – the adjustment of house prices to changes in local public service and tax levels – has long been thought to be a means of testing for efficiency in the local public sector. In this article I argue that the extent of house price capitalization itself may have...
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We investigate urban GDP per capita growth across the EU12 using data for functionally defined cities—rather than administrative regions. We test hypotheses on the role of human capital, EU integration and fragmentation of urban government and explore spatial dependence and mechanisms of...
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In this article I argue that the extent to which fiscal variables are capitalized into house prices has important economic implications. I synthesize an emerging literature that explores the conditions under which public and private investments and intergovernmental transfers are capitalized...
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