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I propose a personal reading of some theories of social justice at a moment when the issue of equality or equity appears to be back on the ‘development agenda’. Nowadays the term equity tends to be most often associated with the equality of opportunity principle. After having briefly...
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Purpose – This paper seeks to explore the difficult territory of intersectionality as it relates to inequality and … disadvantage in the labour market of the arts and cultural sector. It aims to first examine the way Acker's concept of inequality …/methodology/approach – The paper draws on a qualitative study which generated interviews with students, employers and higher education …
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insured against natural disasters. In France, any housing insurance contract includes the coverage against natural disasters …. In 2006, only 52% of households in departments overseas have suscribed a housing insurance contract for their main home …. Thus, 48% of households in departments overseas have been living in an uncovered housing against natural disasters. On the …
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The housing market is a central macroprudential policy concern in France due to the significant proportion of … residential property loans in bank balance sheets and the high weight of housing in household wealth. The surge in house prices at … provision of housing loans. Using a model, this article attempts to examine the impact of measures which directly or indirectly …
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In this paper, using an original survey, we analyze the distributional impact of international migration across two regions of Algeria. A semi-parametric descriptive analysis is comple- mented with a parametric model. Remittances do not significantly change the Gini coefficient in nearly any of...
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France. The multi-decomposition of an inequality measure allows us to put into perspective the role of social spending and …. However, we question the extent to which this multidimensional inequality indicator is a relevant tool for the study of … intergenerational inequalities. Does the multidimensional inequality indicator allow to deliver conclusions regarding retirement …
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’ terms but not in either relative or ‘strong absolute’ terms, owing to the increase in inequality. This can be explained …
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Within a 2 Country-4 Region setting we study the impact of a reduction in international transport costs over the localisation of firms inside countries.We find that even when countries are symmetrical, but as long as regions within countries are not entirely identical (whatever the differences),...
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This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization and international trade on household income inequality and … more exposed to tariff cuts experienced smaller reductions in household poverty and inequality. If significance of results … on Brazilian states depends on the choice of poverty and inequality indicators, robust and contrasting results emerge …
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In this paper, a novel approach is implemented to quantify the effects on poverty and inequality of the financial …
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