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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India
Azam, Mehtabul - 2009
This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330097
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Earnings inequality in India: has the rise of caste and religion based politics in India had an impact?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2006
Since 1989, there has been a sharp increase in the role of caste and religion in determining political fortunes at both state and federal levels in India. As a consequence, significant inter-caste and inter-religion differences in earnings have the potential to stall the process of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267499
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The quest for more and more education: Implications for social mobility
Lindley, Joanne; Machin, Stephen - 2012
increase in the payoff to this education) implies increasing within generation inequality and, by reinforcing already existent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282394
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Intergenerational transmission of neighbourhood poverty in Sweden: An innovative analysis of individual neighbourhood histories
van Ham, Maarten; Hedman, Lina; Manley, David; Coulter, Rory - 2012
The extent to which socioeconomic (dis)advantage is transmitted between generations is receiving increasing attention from academics and policymakers. However, few studies have investigated whether there is a spatial dimension to this intergenerational transmission of (dis)advantage. Drawing...
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The shape of the income distribution and economic growth: Evidence from Swedish labor market regions
Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2011
We analyze the association between inequality and growth across 72 labor market regions in Sweden 1990-2006. Highly … accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set … within a country share the same redistributive policies and institutions. The findings suggest that inequality between the 90 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278526
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Sweden's pensioners: how they have fared in the roller coaster ride through the past decade and a half of deep recession and economic exuberance
Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - 2007
This study analyses the development of the economic well-being of the elderly in Sweden since 1990 - a period … Survey. The elderly were not isolated as pensions were cut, full indexation abandoned and taxes increased during Sweden … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has …
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On mandatory activation of welfare recipients
Dahlberg, Matz; Johansson, Kajsa; Mörk, Eva - 2009
. The empirical analysis makes use of a Swedish welfare reform in which the city districts in Stockholm gradually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269190
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Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain
Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2003
In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262171
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Social mobility: is there an advantage in being English in Scotland?
van Ham, Maarten; Findlay, Allan; Manley, David; … - 2010
This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour force experience of English-born residents in Scotland, whom the cross sectional literature...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274181
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Was the mandal commission right? Living standard differences between backward classes and other social groups in India
Gang, Ira N.; Sen, Kunal; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2008
Affirmative action has been at the heart of public policies towards the socially disadvantaged in India. Compensatory discrimination policies which have been adopted for the Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) since independence were recommended for Other Backward Classes (OBC) by...
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