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The ‘wages breakout’ has been a recurring theme in the Australian public policy debate in recent years. Political conservatives, media commentators and some business groups have warned that Australian wages growth is unsustainable, or threatens to become unsustainable. This paper critically...
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of social inequality on the activity of old people. Dissemination of new technologies and organizational forms allows …. Article aims to highlight the importance of inequality for the activity of the elderly and its relationship to social capital …
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Much of the U.S. labor economics literature asserts that U.S. wage income inequality increased in the last half of the … of growing inequality. This paper shows for nonmetro wage incomes in the U.S. that those gains are but one aspect of the …
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This article examines heterogeneity and income inequality among Hispanic Americans. Two processes that influence …, and income inequality. I use data from two periods, 1979 and 1989, to determine the stability of identity formation among …
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We analyze the effects of the expansions of the European Union on inequality using an approach based on individuals … usual analyses of inequality that focus on the evolution of current per capita income for the period. Our results show that … inequality in terms of permanent income was substantially less than in current per capita income at the time of all the …
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We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In … our framework, inequality is an emergent property of a theoretical model we develop for the dynamics of individual incomes … in the Gini ratio since 2000. In the youngest age group (from 15 to 24 years), however, the level of income inequality …
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The Inequality Process (IP) is a particle system model similar to that of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. The IP is a …
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This paper is (over the formulas) self explaining . The measurement of economies no longer by GDP alone, but by an Index that includes other important factors as well, a So-cial factors relativized GDP. This index cuts out the part of the GDP that is long term fro-zen up by social transfers...
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The paper discusses the ∪-shaped relationship between the equivalence scale n^ε and the Gini index instead of considering the equivalence scale’s relationship to the generalised entropy measures, which was studied by Coulter, et al. (1992). An end-point condition is given for the ∪-shaped...
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This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially … income inequality increased in 1989 but subsequently declined to pretransition levels. The distribution of consumption … income inequality during the transition. However, the relative well-being of different socioeconomic groups was altered and …
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