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The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several …
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, using the ISSP Social Inequality Cumulative. The self-serving bias states that people blame external circumstances for their …
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Denton 1993; Goodnough 2009). For Europe, ethnic segregation certainly exists but does not appear to be increasing for the …
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other sources to consider whether income inequality, relative poverty and spatial segregation might contribute to this … phenomenon. Measured by the Gini Coefficient, income inequality in Scotland is high in European terms, though comparable to … levels seen in Wales, Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic. At the regional level, levels of income inequality in WCS are …
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inequality generated in the market? In order to answer these questions, we need to be equipped with adequate measures of … new measure developed in this paper. -- Redistribution ; inequality ; income mobility ; political economy ; power …
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We document the evolution of intergenerational income (IGI ) inequality, measured as the relative income between old … last 20 years, IGI inequality has increased (in favour of the old) in all rich countries, while it fell or remained … main contributor to the increased IGI inequality is the divergence in employment rates between young and old. Instead, in …
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-coefficients were used for measuring earnings inequality. Relative changes in earnings inequality for sickness benefits were explained …
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This paper examines inequality patterns in the 1990s in Poland, Russia and Hungary. We consider three different … definitions of income and analyse the contributions to inequality of their main components using LIS micro data. Inequality is … Shorrocks' axiomatic approach and the Theil-based decomposition). The role of transfers and taxes in mitigating total inequality …
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This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …
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variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …
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