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analysis of the level of deprivation and pay less attention to income poverty and inequality. Because we consider deprivation … poverty but performs less well in equalising levels of deprivation. The results also show that the immature Southern welfare …
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This report surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and the elderly in OECD … there remain pockets of poverty among the elderly, most studies show that the old are represented proportionally or under …
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This paper provides an overview of methodologies used to analyze inter-regional income inequality, and a critical … of inter-economy income inequality. Methodologies for empirically analyzing income inequality are classified as the cross … classification, touching upon the subject of their applicability domains. The survey of studies on income inequality among Russian …
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Using the 2015 introduction of a statutory minimum wage in Germany as a quasi-experiment, I investigate the effects of wage increases on personality. The degree to which each worker's wage is intended to be affected by the reform is used as an instrument for the relative increase in the worker's...
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We discuss and compare five measures of individual well-being, namely income, an objective composite well-being index, a measure of subjective well-being, equivalent income, and a well-being measure based on the von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities of the individuals. After examining the...
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education coefficient. Households at risk of poverty are also taken into account. Income inequality is measured by way of the … coefficient, as well as between education and households at risk of poverty. The biggest share is represented by households where … negative dependence between the education level and number of households at risk of poverty. Within analyzed period of five …
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This paper presents a methodology for comparing income rank volatility profiles over time and across distributions. While most of the existing measures are affected by changes in marginal distributions, this paper proposes a framework that is based on individuals' relative positions in the...
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Past sociological inequality research focused on (labor) market outcomes, while neglecting the even more important role … the distribution of wealth between European countries, and (2) that patterns of wealth inequality differ strongly from … patterns of income inequality. Surprisingly high levels of wealth disparity were found in the social democratic welfare regimes …
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latent-growth-curve modeling based on household panels show that participatory inequality by parental income is already large … research on (political) inequality in youth and childhood. …
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of poverty. This study examines the pathways by the Dokur villagers of Andhra Pradesh in India to survive and improve … also examined. The per capita income of households has increased rapidly in the recent years. However, income inequality …
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