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Did partial globalization uncrease inequality? Did inequality stimulate globalization backlash? : the case of the Latin American periphery, 1950 - 80
Baten, Jörg - 2002
Inequality is an important threat to the globalization of the world economy that we experience today. This contribution … a globalization backlash . The closing of commodity and capital markets did always take place during or 5-10 years after …
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Globalization and executive compensation
Keller, Wolfgang; Olney, William W. - 2017
This paper identifies globalization as a factor behind the rapid increase in executive compensation and inequality over … executive compensation, indicating that globalization is influencing compensation through pay-for-non-performance. Furthermore … firms with poor corporate governance, as one would expect if globalization has enhanced rent-capture opportunities. Overall …
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Baby booming inequality? : demographic change and earnings inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2010
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial...
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Income inequality, mobility and the accumulation of capital
García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Turnovsky, Stephen J. - 2013
We examine the determinants of income mobility and inequality in a Ramsey model with elastic labor supply and heterogeneous wealth and ability (labor endowment). Both agents with lower wealth and with greater ability tend to supply more labor, implying that labor supply decisions may have an...
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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? : cross-country and longitudinal evidence
Costa-Font, Joan; Hernandez-Quevedo, Cristina; Sato, Azusa - 2013
The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape...
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Measuring health inequality with categorical data : some regional patterns
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2013
Much of the theoretical literature on inequality assumes that the equalisand is a cardinal variable like income or wealth. However, health status is generally measured as a categorical variable expressing a qualitative order. Traditional solutions involve reclassifying the variable by means of...
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The measurement of health inequalities : does status matter?
Costa-Font, Joan; Cowell, Frank A. - 2016
The measurement of health inequalities usually involves either estimating the concentration of health outcomes using an income-based measure of status or applying conventional inequalitymeasurement tools to a health variable that is non-continuous or, in many cases, categorical. However, these...
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The subversive nature of inequality : subjective inequality perceptions and attitudes to social inequality
Kuhn, Andreas - 2016
This paper shows that higher levels of perceived wage inequality are associated with a weaker (stronger) belief into meritocratic (non-meritocratic) principles as being important in determining individual wages. This finding is robust to the use of an instrumental-variable estimation strategy...
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Finance and income inequality : a review and new evidence
Haan, Jakob de; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2016
Using a panel fixed effects model for a sample of 121 countries covering 1975-2005, we examine how financial development, financial liberalization and banking crises are related to income inequality. In contrast with most previous work, our results suggest that all finance variables increase...
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Inequality, opting-out and public education funding
Arcalean, Calin; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2014
We investigate the relationship between inequality and political support for public education funding in a model of endogenous fertility and school choice. Household income heterogeneity is consistent with the skewness of empirical income distributions. Inequality can drive education spending in...
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