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Testing Marx
Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023
We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467800
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Gini decompositions and Gini elasticities : on measuring the importance of income sources and population subgroups for income inequality
Jurkatis, Simon; Strehl, Wolfgang - 2014
This paper points to flaws in Gini decompositions by income sources and population subgroups and to common pitfalls in … this framework Gini elasticities may provide the only meaningful way to examine the relevance of income sources or … in the Gini coefficient and provide a coherent method to decompose the Gini trend by income sources. We add to the recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010414242
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Testing Marx
Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023
We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477385
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Beliefs and actions in the trust game : creating instrumental variables to estimate the causal effect
Costa-Gomes, Miguel A.; Huck, Steffen; Weizsäcker, Georg - 2012
In many economic contexts, an elusive variable of interest is the agent's belief about relevant events, e.g. about other agents' behavior. A growing number of surveys and experiments ask participants to state beliefs explicitly but little is known about the causal relation between beliefs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009583740
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A model united nations experiment on climate negotiations
Hofmann, Elisa; Kyriacou, Lucas; Schmidt, Klaus M. - 2021
Weitzman (2014) proposed that focusing international climate negotiations on a uniform carbon price is more effective than Paris style negotiations in achieving ambitious climate action. We put this hypothesis to an experimental test by simulating international negotiations on climate change in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012500178
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Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines: An exploratory analysis
Balisacan, Arsenio M.; Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2004
The purpose of this paper is to establish some basic facts about income inequality in the Philippines, with a special focus on the importance of spatial income inequality. Despite major fluctuations in macroeconomic performances, income inequality remained relatively stable during the years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284566
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Inequality in historical perspective
Jolly, Richard - 2006
Adam Smith, Tom Paine, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx were all bold and outspoken about the injustices of extreme inequality, nationally and internationally. Yet by almost every standard, global inequality has grown substantially since they were writing, and national income inequality also over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330127
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The Brazilian state's redistributive role: Changes and persistence at the beginning of the 21st century
Silveira, Fernando Gaiger; Palomo, Theo Ribas - 2023
State and to a net reduction in the final income Gini index by 15.9%. We conclude by arguing that further advancements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014548568
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Accounting for the role of tax-benefit changes in shaping income inequality: A new method, with application to income inequality in Finland
Ollonqvist, Joonas - 2021
This paper introduces a new method of analysing how the changes in the tax-benefit-system have been reflected in income inequality. This method is a combination of microsimulation based decomposition (Bar gain and Callan, 2010) and a multivariate regression based decompo sition (Fields, 2003; Yun,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433374
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DEFINING POVERTY LINES AS A FRACTION OFCENTRAL TENDENCY
Muller, Christophe - University <Nottingham> / Department of Economics - 2000
measured by the Gini coeffcient isconstant, dening the poverty line as a fraction of a central tendency of theliving standard …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869058