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Persistence of high income inequality and banking crises : 1980-2010

Bellettini, Giorgio; Delbono, Flavio - 2013 - Preliminary draft

Differently from Atkinson and Morelli (2011) who detect no clear link between increases in income inequality and systemic banking crises, we show that a large majority of crises occurred between 1982 and 2008 have been preceded by persistently high levels of income inequality. Such association...

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A multi-factor inequality approach to a transfer scheme : the case of Common Agricultural Policy

Palestini, Arsen; Pignataro, Giuseppe - 2013

The purpose of this paper is to propose theoretical foundations on the impact of transfer scheme, e.g. Community Agricultural Policy, on income inequality within European Countries. First, we show that ex-post inequality (in the after-transfer distribution) may increase if either initial...

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Educational choice, endogenous inequality and economic development

Andergassen, Rainer (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal

Attili, Federico - 2021 - Rev. ed.

This paper considers a partitioned population and develops a decomposition of the Gini index in two components, which measure the within and the between groups inequality. Differently from the most widespread inequality measure decompositions, having a between component that compares the means...

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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal

Attili, Federico - 2020

The socioeconomic impact of spatial concentration has been receiving an increasing attention during the last two decades. Consequently, the necessity of effective measures of this phenomenon has increased too. This paper considers a population partitioned by subgroups and develops a...

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Responsibility, inequality, efficiency, and equity in four sustainability paradigms : insights for the global environment from a cross-development analytical model

Zagonari, Fabio - 2017

This paper develops a theoretical framework to assess the feasibility of global environmental sustainability solutions based on one or more value changes. The framework represents four sustainability paradigms (weak sustainability WS, a-growth AG, de-growth DG, strong sustainability SS) and five...

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Responsibility, inequality, efficiency, and equity in four sustainability paradigms : policies for a shared sea from a multi-country analytical model

Zagonari, Fabio - 2017

This paper develops a theoretical framework for four sustainability paradigms (weak sustainability, a-growth, de-growth, strong sustainability) within cooperative and non-cooperative scenarios, and includes changes in four values (a sense of responsibility to nature and future generations;...

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Optimal commodity taxation and income distribution

Benassi, Corrado; Randon, Emanuela - 2015

We consider the interplay between income distribution and optimal commodity taxation, linking equity issues to optimal taxes through the effect of income distribution on market demand and its price elasticity. We find conditions to conciliate the equity and efficiency tradeoff and to assess the...

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Approaching an investigation of multi-dimensional inequality through the lenses of variety in models of capitalism

Antonelli, Gilberto; Calia, Pinuccia Pasqualina; … - 2014

economic theory in this field after decades of globalization and in the midst of a persisting global crisis, in paragraphs 2 … why the models of capitalism theory is relevant for studying multidimensional inequality. These paragraphs emphasise that … the process of increasing inequality, the notion of symbolic violence and the models of capitalism theory. In the last …

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