Showing 1 - 5 of 5
Does uncertainty of labor earning over the life-time increase income inequality? - This paper finds that there is a … direct positive relationship between life-time uncertainty and income inequality. Earlier studies single out the effect of … their rapid economic growth, inequality has been decreased in those countries. The degree of earning uncertainty can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060310
premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060319
Income inequality is rising but there seems to be no clear-cut effect on redistribution preferences, which is …-regarding motives. This study follows prior theorization presuming that the effect of inequality is transmitted through normative value … judgements, but argues that a central point has been neglected. Individuals support a certain level of inequality caused by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389648
reducing poverty through social assistance payments are calculated using several measures of poverty for five selected EU … poverty alleviation, the results provide some evidence that extremely centralised systems are more effective with regard to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335445
social inequality. In this study, I used data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to describe trends in educational … amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725504