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Intergenerational Income Mobility and Redistributive Policy
Schad, Mareike - 2016
Mareike Schad examines how redistributive policy measures influence intergenerational income mobility, taking into account various facets of the parent-child connection. In the first part, the author investigates the impact of education and education policy on income mobility both theoretically...
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Inequality, Poverty and Development in India : Focus on the North Eastern Region
De, Utpal Kumar (ed.); Pal, Manoranjan (ed.);  … - 2017
This book reviews the fulfillment of two Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), namely poverty and inequality, in the Indian subcontinent. It examines the complex interplay among development, inequality and poverty in relation to corruption, environmental resource management, agricultural...
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Einkommensverteilung, Wachstum und Krisenentstehung : Geschichte, Theorien und empirische Evidenz
Trappl, Stefan - 2018
Dieses Buch betrachtet die Entwicklung der funktionalen und personellen Einkommensverteilung und deren Verortung im … funktionalen und zur personellen Einkommensverteilung dargestellt. Ansätze der Mainstream-Ökonomie werden heterodoxen Ansätzen … betrachtet, konkret wird die Entwicklung der funktionalen bzw. personellen Einkommensverteilung in insgesamt 14 Ländern zwischen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014019041
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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...
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Inequality, Polarization and Poverty : Advances in Distributional Analysis
Chakravarty, Satya R. - 2009
The study of inequality, polarization and poverty is crucial for understanding the economic well-being of the population of a country. Conceptual and methodological advances and better data have provided better insights into these issues in recent years, and it is the objective of the book to...
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Technological Change and Skill Development in Sudan
Nour, Samia Mohamed - 2013
With the ongoing restructuring in Sudan, structural issues such as the need for skill development and interaction with technological change need an in-depth analysis that this book offers. The central themes of this book are- required skill formation, upskilling of the workers, and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014016447
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The Science and Technology Labor Force : The Value of Doctorate Holders and Development of Professional Careers
Gokhberg, Leonid (ed.); Shmatko, Natalia (ed.);  … - 2016
Foreword -- Part I: The International Value of Doctorate Degrees on the Labor Market -- Part II: Doctorate Holders: Employment Outcome and Mobility -- Part III: Human Resources in Science and Technology and Their Professional Carrers -- Part IV: Conclusions.
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Economic Welfare and Inequality in Iran : Developments since the Revolution
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza (ed.); Alaedini, Pooya (ed.) - 2016
This book examines economic inequality and social disparity in Iran, together with their drivers, over the past four decades. During this period, income distribution and economic welfare were affected by the 1979 Revolution, the eight-year war with Iraq, post-war privatization and economic...
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Inequity in Indian Health Care
Purohit, Brijesh C. - 2017
This book addresses major aspects of inequity, such as access, financing, financial risk protection, gender, service delivery and utilization, in the healthcare sector in India,. Further, it discusses various measures for defining inequity in each of these aspects, and employs different indices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397417
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A Study into Financial Globalization, Economic Growth and (In)Equality
Čaušević, Fikret - 2017
Overview -- Chapter 6: Financial liberalization and globalization: theory and facts over the last three decades -- Chapter 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397839