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Does high income inequality signify inequality of opportunities?

Navon, David; Cohen, Yoav - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

It is often presumed that Gini coefficient values taken to reflect high income inequality are largely due to some combination of socioeconomic factors that gives rise to inequality of opportunities. We demonstrate, using computer simulations, that practically every Gini value within the entire...

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The perception of distributive fairness and optimal taxation under uncertainty

Weinreich, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper incorporates a preference for distributive fairness (inequity aversion) into the analysis on optimal redistributive taxation under uncertainty. We can show that introducing or strengthening the taste for distributive fairness does not affect the socially optimal tax rate (social...

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"Employment in Poland 2011 - Poverty and jobs"

Magda, Iga; Bukowski, Maciej; Buchholz, Sonia; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This edition is devoted to the issue of poverty. Growth of prosperity is not distributed evenly among the Polish … of poverty in general. However, in case the risk occurs, efficient and effective support measures should be provided …. First part of the report defines poverty, and explains the extent of the connection with such phenomena as economic …

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Market operation and distributive justice: An evaluation of the ACCRA confession

Graafland, J.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

In the so-called ACCRA declaration of 2004 the World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC) condemns neo liberal globalisation on grounds of lack of justice. This paper outlines ten alternative criteria for distributive justice. We show that Biblical ethics support various of these criteria,...

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Pension reform and income inequality among the elderly in 15 European countries

Van Vliet, Olaf; Been, Jim; Caminada, Koen; Goudswaard, Kees - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

levels of income inequality or poverty among elderly people. The results appear to be robust for a wide range of econometric …

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Income Inequality, TFP, and Human Capital

Sequeira, Tiago; Santos, Marcelo; Ferreira-Lopes, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

A fruitful recent theoretical literature has related human capital and technological development with income (and wages) inequality. However, empirical assessments on the relationship are still scarce. We relate human capital and total factor productivity (TFP) with inequality and discover that,...

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Healthcare Financing and Health outcomes in Nigeria: A State Level Study using Multivariate Analysis

Riman, Hodo B.; Akpan, Emmanuel S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The study utilizes the multivariate analytical tool to describe the relationship that exists between health care financing, health facility utilization and health outcome in Nigeria. The focus of this research was on women who are of child bearing age and who had given birth to at least one...

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Famiglia e pressione fiscale

Campiglio, Luigi Pierfranco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

We construct a detailed dataset, base on National Accounts, from 1991 to 2012, and the Bank of Italy survey on households in 2010, to measure the global tax burden on households consumer in Italy, distinguishing between direct, indirect taxes and social contributions. Global tax burden is...

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Gini Coefficients for the 2000 Census

Burkey, Mark L. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

This note documents the method for calculating Gini Coefficients in R using 2000 Census data. Many people have use this method for computing Ginis for ZCTA’s for example. You can find these estimates for both the 50 states, as well as all US counties and additional information about Gini...

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Conspicuous consumption in the land of Prince Charming

Truglia, Perez; Nicolas, Ricardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

Conspicuous consumption is a signaling device used to allocate non-market goods (i.e. goods that cannot be traded in markets). In sharp contrast to the existing literature, in our model people do not want to signal wealth but some unobservable traits that, conditional on other observable...

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