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A Note on Inequality Aversion Across Countries, Using Two New Measures

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2011

effect of the Gini on both happiness and life satisfaction. Two new measures used here - the ratio of persons in the lowest … number in the highest, in a given country - as developed from the World Values Survey data, are shown here to have a negative … and significant effect on both happiness and life satisfaction. This effect holds overall across countries, and for …

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The Great Happiness Moderation

Clark, Andrew E. - 2012

This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced positive income growth over the last forty years, in particular in developed countries. This new stylized fact comes as an addition to the Easterlin paradox, which states that...

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The Drivers of Happiness Inequality : Suggestions for Promoting Social Cohesion

Becchetti, Leonardo - 2013

This paper identifies and quantifies the contribution of a set of covariates in affecting levels and over time changes of happiness inequality. Using a decomposition methodology based on RIF regression, we analyse the increase in happiness inequality observed in Germany between 1992 and 2007,...

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Misallocation and Inequality

Guner, Nezih; Ruggieri, Alessandro - 2022

For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries get richer, the mean-to-median ratio and the Gini coefficient decline. Yet, this decline masks divergent patterns: while inequality at the top of the earnings distribution falls,...

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The Global Inequality Boomerang

Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022

In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...

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Geographies of Socio-Economic Inequality

Ham, Maarten van; Manley, David; Tammaru, Tiit - 2022

Over many decades, academics, policymakers and governments have been concerned with both the presence of inequalities and the impacts these can have on people when concentrated spatially in urban areas. This concern is especially related to the influence of spatial inequalities on individual...

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Global Earnings Inequality, 1970–2015

Hammar, Olle - 2017

, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …

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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 …

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Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?

Duncan, Denvil - 2012

This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...

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Roots of Inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Crisóstomo Wainstock, … - 2023

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning differentials reflect variations in productive traits among individuals, a significant component of the differences in inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in...

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