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phenomenon in their universe. This methodological defect persists since Adam Smith. Therefore, the theories of income and wealth …
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higher level of household income, university education and a larger number of people in household along with salary as a …
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Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early … inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil’s largest state, using farm-level micro data for some 50,000 farms. Using these … measures of inequality, along with contemporary covariates and other historical variables I assess the impact of colonial …
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sustainability challenges, such as rising income inequality, wealth concentration and growing carbon emissions. In this regard, an … and wealth, including land, industrial or financial capital) across individuals as well as between the private and the … and development: wealth redistribution. The prevailing approach generally covers income redistribution and the provision …
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point we make two contributions. First we quantify the phenomena of poverty, richness, and inequality in housing comfort … mainly from complementary comfort and to a lesser extent from basic comfort items. Inequality in housing comfort, measured by …
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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 …Past sociological inequality research focused on (labor) market outcomes, while neglecting the even more important role …
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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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-skill workers, is relatively modest. Wage inequality between workers with basic skills and with advanced skills rose over time …, while the inequality between workers with and without basic skills fell greatly. In order to understand these facts, this … distribution of wealth and sectoral productivity. It is shown that, for fast transformation into a developed economy, the initial …
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How can we measure economic development? Is it in money terms or in human terms? If it is the second one, how can we measure economic development in human aspects? These questions had been asked and argued for several years. Human development concept and its index gives answer for these...
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, the new data of the World Values Survey, 2010-2014 were released, containing yet another enormous wealth of new data … international data collection of the World Values Survey, our re-analysis of the very World Values Survey data [“roll-outs” of the … World Values Survey data wvs1981_2008_v20090914.sav] brought us to question Inglehart’s theories, with which he and his …
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