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Are All Democracies Equally Good? The Role of Interactions Between Political Environment and Inequality for Rule of Law
Sunde, Uwe; Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe - 2021
Using cross-country data, we find evidence for a significant negative interaction effect between democracy and … inequality in determining the quality of growth-promoting institutions like rule of law. Democracy is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316859
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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915714
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Reciprocal Climate Negotiators
Nyborg, Karine - 2015
International climate negotiations have been troubled by mutual mistrust. At the same time, a hope seems to prevail that once enough countries moved forward, others would follow suit. If the abatement game faced by climate negotiators is a Prisoners' Dilemma, and countries are narrowly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026868
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The Measurement of Educational Inequality : Achievement and Opportunity
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2011
This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117624
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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations
Docquier, Frédéric - 2006
Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. First, I present alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779028
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Geography of Skills and Global Inequality
Burzyński, Michał - 2018
for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education … in the world distribution of skills, slow-growing urbanization in developing countries and a rebound in income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910758
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Societal Inequalities Amplify Gender Gaps in Math
Breda, Thomas - 2019
While gender gaps in average math performance are close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly underrepresented among math high performers. Using data from five successive waves of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we show that this underrepresentation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012867154
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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2015
(SEDLAC). Two are based on secondary sources: "All the Ginis" (ATG) and the World Income Inequality Database (WIID); and one … is generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012798
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Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality
Mountford, Andrew - 2014
According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050612
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Misperceiving Inequality
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2015
Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016396