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Social welfare, inequality and deprivation
Magdalou, Brice (contributor); Moyes, Patrick (contributor) - 2008
We provide a characterization of the generalised satisfaction - in our terminology nondeprivation - quasi-ordering introduced by S.R. Chakravarty (Keio Economic Studies 34 (1997), 17-32) for making welfare comparisons based on the absence of deprivation. We show that the non-deprivation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003800432
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What contributes to rising inequality in large cities?
Ayala Cañón, Luis; Martín-Román, Javier; Vicente … - 2023
This paper aims to analyze the trends in income inequality in large cities within a selected sample of OECD countries. Specifically, we consider a set of determinants that account for changes in the income distribution and estimate their contributions to inequality by developing both a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455232
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Anatomy of income inequality in the United States : 1979-2013
Hadavand, Aboozar - 2017
This paper provides a novel analysis of the trend in income inequality in the United States between 1979-2013. There are two ways in which this paper contributes to the literature. First, I analyze how much of the existing inequality in the U.S. is due to the demographic changes that happened...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628403
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The inequality we want : how much is too much?
Krozer, Alice - 2017
A key aspect defining the contemporary income distribution is the (increasing) share the top holds compared to the rest. This paper shows that income concentration increases towards the very top of the distribution, while the shares the middle- and upper-middle-income groups hold remain stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628596
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Migration and inequalities around the Mediterranean Sea
Nilsson, Björn; Ramadan, Racha - 2020
This paper aims to quantify the effects from migration on net income distributions, disentangling the roles played by factor reallocation and remittances, and focusing on two (primarily) destination countries (Spain and Italy) and two (primarily) origin countries (Jordan and Iraq). Using LIS-ERF...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227808
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Trade, inequality, and subjective well-being : getting at the roots of the backlash against globalization
Dluhosch, Barbara - 2018
income distribution has widened and whether trade is responsible indeed. However, political trends may be more grounded in … that income inequality is perceived very differently depending on openness to trade. The relevance of perceptions has wider … politico-economic implications in that it carries the risk of costly anti-trade policies, without necessarily narrowing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870318
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Perceived social position and income inequality : do they move together? : evidence from Europe and the United States
Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2016
The match between perception and reality can depend on many different elements across societies over time, but subjective and objective dimensions are both relevant particularly in social class analysis. The aim of this paper is to investigate perceived social position and income inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484327
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Falling behind or catching up? : cross-country evidence in intra-generational wages mobility through pseudo-panels
Lilla, Marco - 2016
The paper aims to encompass evidence on wage distribution and inequality with micro-mobility measures for several countries in the 2000s, by applying pseudo-panel methodology to microdata from the LIS database. Hence, different paths in term of wage growth or stagnation, increasing or declining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011484346
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Manufacturing jobs and inequality : why is the U.S. experience different?
Novta, Natalija; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2019
We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in advanced economies. This contribution is typically small, except in the United States. We explore two possible explanations: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052312
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Redistributive impacts of fiscal policies in Mexico : corrections for top income measurement problems
Hlásny, Vladimír - 2019
This study assesses the redistributive impacts of fiscal instruments in a 2014 Mexican household budget survey (ENIGH) correcting for potential top-income measurement problems. We use two correction methods based on within-survey information to re-estimate the redistributive impacts of...
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