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This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … rate on the equilibrium growth rate as well as on the income distribution. We show that the relationship between growth and … inequality is at first positive and then may be negative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with the …
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Do other peoples’ incomes reduce the happiness which people in advanced countries experience from any given income? And does this help to explain why in the U.S., Germany and some other advanced countries, happiness has been constant for many decades? The answer to both questions is ‘Yes’....
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inequality of opportunity, as well as to greater output. This provides an additional rationale for an active role for the …
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … has fallen in countries that have experienced income growth (but not in those that did not). Modern growth has reduced the … share of both the “very unhappy” and the “perfectly happy”. Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …
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) but have moderate effects on the growth of subsequent years. Regional (per-capita) inequality is also evaluated using … discontinuity of per-capita GDP growth partitions Austria's regions into two groups. Clear evidence of discontinuity (a “take … Austria, Bohemia, Silesia, Galicia, Bukovina, and Dalmatia there is instead no evidence of structural break in their growth …
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predict the potential implications of particular growth policies to inequality, poverty and, consequently, to social …This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to …
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income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income idfferences among … certain population subgroups with apparent policy implications. The degree to which overall inequality is attributable to … inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by …
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will tend to be higher in countries with higher inequality and with greater pro-rich bias in the political system …. Conversely, the use of income tax will be higher in countries with lower inequality and less pro-rich bias. The model also … predicts that although inequality and political bias will have an impact on the composition of revenue, it will have no effect …
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evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …
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By some definitions, social housing, social housing tenants are necessarily socially excluded. In other terms, in 2000, social housing tenants were at greater risk of being socially excluded than owner occupiers and private renters on measures of income, employment, education, health, and...
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