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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods

Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011

We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...

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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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Happiness, habits and high rank: Comparisons in economic and social life

Clark, Andrew E. - 2011

The role of money in producing sustained subjective well-being seems to be seriously compromised by social comparisons and habituation. But does that necessarily mean that we would be better off doing something else instead? This paper suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation...

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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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Does size matter? The impact of changes in household structure on income distribution in Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010

In Germany, two observations can be made over the past 20 years: First, income inequality has been constantly increasing while, second, the average household size has been declining dramatically. The analysis of income distribution relies on equivalence-weighted incomes which take into account...

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Do rising top incomes lift all boats?

Andrews, Dan; Jencks, Christopher; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile's income share is associated with a...

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The distributional impact of public services when needs differ

Aaberge, Rolf; Bhuller, Manudeep; Langørgen, Audun; … - 2010

Despite a broad consensus on the need to take into account the value of public services in distributional analysis, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality estimates. In particular, the equivalence scales applied to...

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Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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Accounting for Income Distribution Trends : A Density Function Decomposition Approach

Jenkins, Stephen P.; van Kerm, Philippe - 2004

This paper develops methods for decomposing changes in the income distribution using subgroup decompositions of the income density function. Overall changes are related to changes in subgroup shares and changes in subgroup densities, where the latter are broken down further using elementary...

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