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Wage Inequality and Wage Mobility in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit; Dalgıç, Başak; Güven, Aytekin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper investigates wage inequality and wage mobility in Turkey using the Surveys on Income and Living Conditions … (SILC). This is the first paper that explores wage mobility for Turkey. It differs from the existing literature by providing … of the highest among the European Union (EU) countries. The wage mobility in Turkey is lower than what is observed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112668
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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017
When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943787
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Evolution of social inequalities in health in Quebec?
Batana, Yélé Maweki - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper, based on data from the National Population Health Surveys (NPHS) from 1994 to 2007, analyzes the evolution of social inequalities in health in Quebec since the mid-1990s using two health measures namely self-assessed health (SAH) and health utility index (HUI). Two methods are used....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636482
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African Jobless Growth Morphology:Vulnerabilities and Policy Responses
NWAOBI, GODWIN - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107833
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The Relationship between the Equivalence Scale and the Inequality Index and Its Impact on the Measurement of Income Inequality
Okamoto, Masato - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259680
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¿Desaparece la clase media en México?: Una aplicación de la polarización por subgrupos entre 1984 y 2000.
Huesca, Luis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
This paper empirically applies the statistical approaches to the phenomenon of polarization generated by Esteban, et al. (1999) and Gradín (2000) in order to quantify the evolution of the middle class in Mexico and the role of various household attributes in the formation of groups during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260257
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Nontaxable income and necessary consumption: the Rousseau’s paradox of fiscal egalitarianism
Faíña, Andres; A.; Lopez-Rodriguez, Jesus; J.; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The traditional concept of a strict minimum of necessary consumption and nontaxable income equal for all taxpayers embedded in most current income-tax systems is the result of a paradox of fiscal egalitarianism. The paper shows that substituting the traditional notion of a strict minimum of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009251554
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A Single-Mindedness model with n generations
Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I will analyse the redistribution of income amongst n generations using the Single-mindedness Theory. I will introduce a new expression for the balanced-budget constraint, no longer based on lump- sum transfers as in the traditional literature, but rather on more realistic labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835397
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Desigualdade salarial e educacao na Lima Metropolitana 1970-1984
Rodriguez, Jose - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1991
It assesses the impact of the expansion of educational levels on the distribution of wages between 1970 and 1984 in Metropolitan Lima in Peru. For this purpose it uses a dynamic decomposition of the second Theil's concentration index using data from household surveys. The results suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529203
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A Contribution to the Positive Theory of Direct Taxation
Emanuele, Canegrati - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I analyse a probabilistic voting model where political candidates choose a direct taxation policy to maximise the probability of winning elections. Society is divided into groups which have di¤erent preferences for consumption of leisure or, in other words, are di¤erently...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619343