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Mainstreaming Migration in Development Agendas : Assessment of South Asian Countries

Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - 2015

There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...

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Economic well-being, social mobility, and preferences for income redistribution: Evidence from a discrete choice experiment

Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2010

In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...

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Inequality of life chances and the measurement of social immobility

Silber, Jacques - 2007

This paper begins by proposing two cardinal measures of inequality in life chances. Using as its database a matrix in which the lines correspond to the social category of parents and the columns to the income distribution of their children, it then highlights the importance of the marginal...

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Does the Glass Ceiling Exist? : A Cross-National Perspective on Gender Income Mobility

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2003

We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross-National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. Conventional thinking about the glass ceiling highlights the belief that the...

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Why does the amount of income redistribution differ between United States and Europe? The Janus face of Switzerland

Akkoyunlu, Sule; Neustadt, Ilja; Zweifel, Peter - 2009

that hard work rather than luck, birth, connections, and corruption determine wealth. In this way, the Janus face of …

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Gender differences in German upward income mobility

Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the posterior probability that men's upward income mobility...

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On the evaluation of economic mobility

Gottschalk, Peter; Spolaore, Enrico - 2001

This paper presents a framework for the evaluation and measurement of reversal and origin independence as separate aspects of economic mobility. We show how that evaluation depends on aversion to multi-period inequality, aversion to inter-temporal fluctuations, and aversion to future risk. We...

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Liberal Egalitarianism and the Harm Principle

Lombardi, Michele; Miyagishima, Kaname; Veneziani, Roberto - 2013

This paper analyses the implications of classical liberal and libertarian approaches for distributive justice in the context of social welfare orderings. An axiom capturing a liberal non-interfering view of society, named the Weak Harm Principle, is studied, whose roots can be traced back to...

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The functions of wealth: renters, owners and capitalists across Europe and the United States

Fessler, Pirmin; Schürz, Martin - 2018

Piketty (2017) argues in favor of a multidimensional and relational approach to the analysis of wealth inequality … approach by focusing on different functions of wealth. We operationalize functions of wealth by empirically analyzing the … on these decisive functions of wealth aligns well with the wealth distribution, in ways that vary considerably across …

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The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being: Estimates for Canada, 1999 and 2005

Sharpe, Andrew; Murray, Alexander; Evans, Benjamin; … - 2011

This report presents estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) for a representative sample of Canadian households in 1999 and 2005. The results indicate that there was only modest growth in the average Canadian household's total command over economic resources in the...

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