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The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

results from different case studies are presented. These results are further contrasted to those obtained based on the World … the concepts, measurement and decomposition of inequality, the world distribution of income and inequality measured at … those based on the World Income Inequality Database. Research on the world income inequality supports increased awareness of …

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Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

. We investigate the economic disparity between regions of the world and among countries within each continent or …

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Violent conflict and inequality

Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010

This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes in income inequality. Our results indicate rising...

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Warrant economics, call-put policy options and the fallacies of economic theory

Hatgioannides, John; Karanassou, Marika - 2011

plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of …

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Empirical approaches to inequality of opportunity: Principles, measures, and evidence

Ramos, Xavi; Van de Gaer, Dirk - 2012

We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and...

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Risky human capital investment, income distribution, and macroeconomic dynamics

Grossmann, Volker - 2003

This paper analyzes the interaction between intergenerational wealth transmission, human capital investments under uninsurable labor income risk, and economic growth in a small open overlapping-generations economy with heterogeneous agents. It demonstrates how the role of the personal income...

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Inequalities and Their Measurement

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper is a review of the recent advances in the measurement of inequality. Inequality can have several dimensions. Economists are mostly concerned with the income and consumption dimensions of inequality. Several inequality indices including the most widely used index of inequality namely...

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The Economics of Human Cloning

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2000

In this paper, we analyze the extent to which market forces create an incentive for cloning human beings. We show that a market for cloning arises if a large enough fraction of the clone?s income can be appropriated by its model. Only people with the highest ability are cloned, while people at...

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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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The Distributional Impact of Social Transfers in the European Union: Evidence from the ECHP

Heady, Christopher; Mitrakos, Theodore; Tsakloglou, Panos - 2001

Social transfers vary enormously across the EU, as has been demonstrated in earlier research. This paper analyses the comparative effects of cash transfers on inequality and poverty, using consistent household data. The analysis shows that the distributional impact of these transfers is greater...

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