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Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty …
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The welfare gains of age related optimal income taxation
Bastani, Spencer; Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2010
Using a calibrated overlapping generations model we quantify the welfare gains of an age dependent income tax. Agents face uncertainty regarding future abilities and can by saving transfer consumption across periods. The welfare gain of switching from an age-independent to an age-dependent...
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The role of financial inclusion in improving household well-being
Sakyi-Nyarko, Carlos; Ahmad, Ahmad Hassan; Green, … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 34 (2022) 8, pp. 1606-1632
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Does Gender Equality Translate into Economic Equality? Evidence from about 150 Nations
Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021
This paper adds to our understanding of the causes of income inequality across nations by examining the influence of different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012582012
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Does Gender Equality Translate into Economic Equality? Evidence from About 150 Nations
Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021
This paper adds to our understanding of the causes of income inequality across nations by examining the influence of different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013239326
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Multidimensional Indices of Achievements and Poverty: What Do We Gain and What and What Do We Lose?
Lustig, Nora - eSocialSciences - 2011
Poverty and well-being are multidimensional. Nobody questions that deprivations and achievements go beyond income …. There is, however, sharp disagreement on whether the various dimensions of poverty and well-being can be aggregated into a … single, multidimensional index in a meaningful way. Is aggregating dimensions of poverty and well-being useful? Is it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009319343
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Economic Well-being and Non-economic Well-being: A Review of the Meaning and Measurement of Poverty
Sumner, Andrew - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper discusses the measurement of poverty and well-being. A historical overview is given of the last fifty years …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751876
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Time poverty and gender in urban sub-Saharan Africa : long working days and long commutes in Ghana's Greater Accra Metropolitan Area
Carmichael, Fiona; Darko, Christian K.; Daley, Patricia; … - In: Journal of international development : the journal of … 36 (2024) 1, pp. 343-364
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Political Preferences for Redistribution in Sweden
Bastani, Spencer; Lundberg, Jacob - 2016
We examine preferences for redistribution inherent in Swedish tax policy 1971–2012 using the inverse optimal tax approach. The income distribution is carefully characterized with the help of administrative register data and we employ behavioral elasticities reflecting the perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584904
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The social cost of carbon and inequality: when local redistribution shapes global carbon prices
Kornek, Ulrike; Klenert, David; Edenhofer, Ottmar; … - 2019
The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
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