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our methodology. We utilised the framework to model changes to the level of income inequality from the period just before … inequality fell in the early part of the crisis, but rose steadily and then rapidly. Much of this change was due to rising … inequality of market incomes, (even when discounting unemployment). This was due to the differential effect of the downturn on …
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This paper examines the economic origins of the Islamic revival that took place in Egypt in the 1970-80s, and in Muslim societies more generally. We provide the first systematic evidence of a decline in social mobility among educated youth in Egypt. Developing a behavioral model of religion, we...
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concerning educational inequality should include, not just the possibilities for remediating the skill levels of poor children …
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Does the association between household characteristics and household CO2 emissions differ for different areas such as home energy, transport, indirect and total emissions in the UK? Specific types of households might be more likely to have high emissions in some areas than in others and thus be...
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disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …. In turn, had financialisation not increased after 2005, inequality would have decreased to its level in the early …
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from the mine, while district-level consumption inequality increases in all districts belonging to a producing province …
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, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …
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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 … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …
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This paper investigates whether the increasing "residual wage inequality" trend is related to manufacturing decline and …, and institutional factors have played a significant role in the inequality trend. However, most of the trend is … variation across locations (states or cities) in the United States in the local level of "residual inequality." The evidence …
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This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
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