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This paper explores how individual preferences for income redistribution are influenced by social capital, which is measured by rates of participation in community activities. I combined individual-level data and place of residence data to examine how social capital accumulated in residential...
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The study of inequality and economic growth to the developing countries are now a days a comprehensive issue since … growth stimulate the standard of living to the poor people and accordingly reduce income inequality.The improvement of … inequality and growth may reduce the social movement to the government and may keep the economic and social integrity amongst the …
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-based measure. However, the role of social inequality in influencing individual’s consumption and inducing greater consumption of … the so called status good has been relatively undermined. This paper attempts to show that in presence of inequality a …
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literature. This paper, using a two commodity framework, attempts to show that in presence of inequality, a status driven utility … such a utility function is constructed to analyse the implications of social inequality on relative prices and the emerging …
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The subjective well-being approach to valuation is applied to the valuation of income inequality. Results show that … objective inequality is a bad in the industrialized economies but a good in the emerging economies. Too much objective … inequality is a bad in both areas. Results also show that people in both areas consider income inequality as a good, thus …
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inequality reduces income growth, but only in democracies. We find that their result is highly sensitive to the use of data … sources on both democracy and inequality. When we substitute more commonly-used and higher-quality data sources for democracy … and inequality, their key result disappears. …
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. The relationship between polarization, inequality and poverty is analyzed via the index. First, polarization measure for …
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Corruption increases inequality in the society (Gupta et al, 1998) by reducing economic growth, biasing the tax system … then as democracy grows corruption decreases. The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between inequality … and democracy in two directions, both the effect of democracy on inequality and the effect of inequality on democracy. It …
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(similar to dissimilarity index in the literature on inequality of opportunity) which captures inequality in distribution of … differential intensity across different socioeconomic groups. This paper proposes a new measure, Inequality of Poverty Index …
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In presence of inequality a status driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income based and nutrition …
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