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effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007-2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …
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addressing this challenge and providing methods for ethical poverty, welfare, and inequality comparisons with univariate ordered …
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This study provides evidence on the trends and drivers of inequality in Vietnam using Vietnam Household Living Standard … Surveys. We find that inequality, regardless of the choice of welfare indicators and inequality measurements, has been stable … in Vietnam. Inequality in income or expenditure is remarkably lower than inequality in assets. In 2016, the Gini …
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Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …
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Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then examine how changes in inequality …
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To what extent do childhood experiences continue to affect adult wellbeing over the life course? Previous work on this link has been carried out either at one particular adult age or for some average over adulthood. We here use two British birth-cohort datasets (the 1958 NCDS and the 1970 BCS)...
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Most of the studies on subjective well-being focus on the determinants of absolute life satisfaction or happiness levels. This paper asks an important but understudied question, namely, could countries achieve the same or even higher subjective well-being by using the same resources more...
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suggests the importance of studying subjective economic welfare, with possible implications on income inequality. Our findings … suggest that a society with high income inequality, in which a small proportion of the population earns a large proportion of …
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The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...
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Communism was a two-edged sword for the trustees of the former regime. Communist party members and their relatives enjoyed status and privileges, while secret police informants were often coerced to work clandestinely and gather compromising materials about friends, colleagues, and neighbors. We...
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