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This timely book debates the economic and political logic of the austerity policies that have been implemented in the UK and in the Eurozone since 2010 and asks whether there is any alternative for these countries in the years ahead. The work reconsiders the austerity versus stimulus debate...
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Chapter 1 Price Disequilibrium Theory -- Chapter 2 International Grid of Capital Flows: Innovation, Crisis, and Off-shore Banking -- Chapter 3 Dynamics of Government Fiscal Instability -- Chapter 4 Public and Private Debt Markets in Disequilibrium Theory -- Chapter 5 Why ‘Austerity’ Failed...
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David Ricardo on Public Debt provides a comprehensive view of the topic of public debt from the Ricardian standpoint. It shows how and why Ricardo's analysis of public debt connects to other themes and issues in Ricardian economics. With extensive reference to Ricardo's own words Churchman...
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We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more...
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in two countries (the UK and Germany using the German Socio-Economic Panel and the British Household Panel Survey). We …
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sectional data from Germany (GSOEP 2006), UK (BHPS 2005), and Australia (HILDA 2007). We examine whether there is evidence on … Germany, using a differences-in-differences methodology, I find that non-overweight/non-obese individuals are on average 0 …
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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … Germany. The - in some cases severe - differences identified are discussed in the context of the surveying and interviewing … exert a major influence on the substantive results and thus on the core findings regarding the social situation of Germany …
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Population surveys around the world face the problem of declining cooperation and participation rates of respondents. Not only can item nonresponse and unit nonresponse impair important outcome measures for inequality research such as total household disposable income; there is also a further...
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In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly …
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Analyse der Einkommensverteilung in Deutschland einbezogen. Im Ergebnis führt dies bei den verfügbaren Haushaltseinkommen zu …
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