This paper demonstrates that the property of 'replication invariance', generally considered to be an innocuous requirement for the extension of fixed-population poverty comparisons to variable-population contexts, is incompatible with other plausible variable- and fixed-population axioms. --...

Debates about poverty relief and foreign aid often hinge on claims about how many poor people there are in the world and what constitutes poverty. Good measures of poverty are essential for addressing the world poverty problem. Measures of poverty require a basis for determining who is poor and...

Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development....

Legal empowerment has become widely accepted in development policy circles as an approach to addressing poverty and exclusion. At the same time, it has received relatively little attention from political scientists and sociologists working on overlapping and closely related topics. Research on...

The relationship between social mobility and inequality is well studied in the literature, but far greater attention has been paid to 'vertical' than to 'horizontal' inequality. This paper focuses on mobility and horizontal inequality between ethnic, racial, and culturally-defined groups. Not...

A considerable body of research suggests that horizontal inequality between ethnic groups has major socioeconomic implications, in particular for peace and economic development. Much of this work focuses on horizontal inequality as an independent causal variable, rather than an outcome of...

Digitalisierung ist eine langfristige technologische Veränderung, die viele Branchen tiefgreifend verändert. Sie ermöglicht eine verbesserte Kundenansprache und Kostensenkung durch Standardisierung von Schnittstellen in der Wertschöpfung, birgt aber zugleich Risiken, wie die zum Beispiel oft...

Automotive Management: Weiterentwicklung von Geschäftsmodellen und Perspektiven des Automobilmanagements.-Automotive Engineering: Fahrerassistenzsysteme, vernetzte Fahrzeuge, autonomes Fahren, alternative Antriebssysteme und Elektronik der Fahrzeuge -- Changes in Urban Mobility: Veränderungen...

Der Tagungsband zum 11. Wissenschaftsforum Mobilität an der Universität Duisburg-Essen im Mai 2019 untersucht das Rahmenthema „Neue Dimensionen der Mobilität“. Die Beiträge des Forums an den Schnittstellen der betriebswirtschaftlichen und ingenieurwissenschaftlichen Forschung geben dazu...