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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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....

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Meltzer-Richard and social mobility hypothesis: revisiting the income-redistribution nexus using German choice data

Pfarr, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Whereas the supply of redistribution is relatively easy to measure, the determinants of the demand for redistribution are controversially discussed in international literature. Economic theory typically models redistribution as the result of a voting mechanism; this is only inadequately...

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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility: An Analysis for OECD countries.

Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The question whether a socially mobile society is conducive to subjective well-being (SWB) has rarely been investigated. This paper fills this gap by analyzing the SWB effects of intergenerational earnings mobility and equality in educational attainment at the societal level. Using...

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The Welfare Effects of Social Mobility

Fischer, Justina AV - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

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Growth is (really) good for the (really) rich

Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Chavez, Emmanuel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper analyzes the relationship between mean income and the income of the rich. Our methodology closely follows that of Dollar and Kraay (2002), but instead of looking at the bottom of the distribution, we analyze the top. We use panel data from the World Top Incomes database, which...

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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...

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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...

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