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inequality. This paper presents an experiment which disentangles concerns for risk and inequality in a social risk context … terms of dispersion. We disentangle four types of dispersion: ex ante inequality, ex post inequality, individual risk, and … collective risk. The results show that people are averse towards ex ante inequality and individual risk, whereas they are ex post …
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well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up … href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/ak4r54626380774p/">Journal of Economic Inequality</A>. …
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In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …
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The inequality dataset compiled in the 1990s by the World Bank and extendedby the UN has been both widely used and … strongly criticized. The criticisms raisequestions about conclusions drawn from secondary inequality datasets in general … new dataset of consistent inequality series,allowing us to explore problems of measurement error. In addition, the new …
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Meta-analysis is a research method to synthesise previously obtained researchresults. It is best seen as a statistical approach towards reviewing and summarising theliterature. This paper aims to introduce and critically review the research method ofmeta-analysis and to illustrate its potential...
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consumption-pattern based inequality index that summarizes the projection of inequality through expenditure patterns. Estimation …
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This discussion paper has led to a publication in <A href="http://www.springerlink.com/content/r6x36x128621t040/">'Journal of Risk and Uncertainty'</A>, 44(1), 45-72.<P>This study attempts to combine two traditional fields in microeconomics: individual decision making under risk and decision making in an interpersonal context. The influence of social comparison on...</p></a>
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decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper implements a new … disparities in China relate to rising income inequality and in particular to the adverse health and income experience of older (wo …
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Read also the publication in the 'European Journal of Operational Research', 2013, 228, 413-417.<P> We introduce a new solution for bankruptcy problems that satisfies weaker versions of the Exemption en Exclusion properties from the literature. Although the principles of Exclusion and Exemption are...</p>
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This paper investigates whether transactions where the buyer (or the seller) always moves first, andthe seller (or the buyer) always moves second in the exchange gives higher payoffs than exchangesin which it is randomly determined who moves first. We examine the effect of two...
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