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Technology and Inequality : Concentrated Wealth in a Digital World
Allen, Jonathan P. - 2017
This book will summarize what we know about technology and inequality across disciplines, and seek out new ways to analyze this relationship based on technology and business practices, with the objective of restoring digital technology as an engine of opportunity. Besides the unique focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398356
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Lebenslage, Umwelt und Gesundheit : Der Einfluss sozialer Faktoren auf die Entstehung von Allergien
Elvers, Horst-Dietrich - 2005 - 1. Auflage
I. Einleitung -- II. Allergische Erkrankungen -- III. Soziale Ungleichheit und Gesundheit -- IV. Zum Umweltbegriff -- V …Gesundheit weist enge Bezüge zu sozialer Ungleichheit auf. In der Regel ist der Gesundheitszustand von Angehörigen der … als gesundheitlicher Risikofaktor im engeren Sinne verstanden werden darf. Wirkungen sozialer Ungleichheit auf Gesundheit …
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Inequality, Polarization and Conflict : An Analytical Study
Chakravarty, Satya R. - 2015
Chapter 1. Measuring Inequality -- Chapter 2. On the Measurement of Income Bipolarization -- Chapter 3. Measurement of Income Multi-Polar Polarization -- Chapter 4. Reduced -Form Indices of Income Polarization -- Chapter 5. Social Polarization -- Chapter 6. Measurement of Polarization for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019200
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Development Disparities in India : An Enquiry into Convergence
Banerjee, Arpita - 2015
Chapter 1. Regional Development in India -- Chapter 2. Development Disparities: An Exploration of Past Research -- Chapter 3. Regional Disparity in India: A Research Agenda -- Chapter 4. Regional Inequality and Convergence in Economic Growth in India -- Chapter 5. Regional Disparity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014020132
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Poverty, Inequality and Development : Essays in Honor of Erik Thorbecke
Janvry, Alain (contributor); Kanbur, Ravi (contributor) - 2006
Traditionally, there have been two strands in the analysis of poverty, inequality and development - a micro strand that focuses on individual behavior, welfare economics and the measurement of inequality and poverty, and a macro strand that analyzes economy-wide policies and the role of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520428
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Amartya Sen's Capability Approach : Theoretical Insights and Empirical Applications
Kuklys, Wiebke (contributor) - 2005
Kuklys examines how Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen?s approach to welfare measurement can be put in practice for poverty and inequality measurement in affluent societies such as the UK. Sen argues that an individual?s welfare should not be measured in terms of her income, but in terms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013520489
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The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America : Decades of Change
Ystanes, Margit (ed.); Strønen, Iselin Åsedotter (ed.) - Workshop on Inequality in Latin America <2015, Bergen, … - 2018
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the...
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Poverty and Equity : Measurement, Policy and Estimation with DAD
Duclos, Jean-Yves (contributor);  … - 2006
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Efficiency and Equity in Welfare Economics
Nicola, Pier Carlo - 2013
Overview -- Inequality, Poverty, and Welfare: Social Welfare and Income Distributions -- Inequality and Poverty Indexes -- Welfare and Efficiency: Inequality, Efficiency, and the Production Sphere -- Efficiency and Welfare -- Information Incentives and Performance -- Summary Example and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016231
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Economic Growth and Inequality : Empirical Analysis for the Russian Regions
Kufenko, Vadim - 2015
Vadim Kufenko provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of various aspects of economic growth and income inequality in the Russian regions using different estimation techniques from the cross-section OLS and logistic models to dynamic panel data system GMM. The general period for the data is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819092