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Ab den 1980er Jahren entwickelte Amartya Sen eine neue Wohlfahrtstheorie: den Capability Approach (Sen, 1979; 1985; 1992; 1999; 2009). Dabei ersetzen Capabilities und Functionings, d.h. das, was Personen tatsächlich in der Lage sind zu tun und zu sein, den traditionellen Einkommensansatz. Armut ist im...
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Cross-country data on energy consumption, GDP and vulnerability are used to measure percentage changes in vulnerability … effects on per capita income, have the effect of reducing a country’s overall vulnerability to climate change by a greater … globe, are unlikely to reduce vulnerability to climate change, especially at very low incomes. …
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analyzing how a range of external pressuresaffect the vulnerability of dryland pastoral systems in the Kalahari. This is … managers can provide ‘win-win-win’ benefits of reducing system vulnerability, increasing economic income, and building social …
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"We develop an evolutionary game theory model for a limited access common pool resource. With full disclosure of individual extraction decisions and payoffs we conjecture that subjects will imitate the most successful players’ strategy as long as their payoffs increase. We derive a stable...
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reducing inequality. Educated workers in these countries have a much lower birth rate than uneducated workers. Assuming … incorporating this effect generates multiple stedy-state levels of inequality, suggesting that in some circumstances, temporarily … increasing access to educational opportunities could permanently reduce inequality. Empirical evidence suggests that the …
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A new strand of literature has recently sought to investigate possible links between technological changes, observed modifications to firms' organizational structure and the evolution of the wage gap between skilled and unskilled workers. After a brief overview of such approaches, this essay...
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This study compares the effects of economic internationalisation on the functional distribution of labour income in the U.S.and Germany. The benchmark for assessing the empirical analyses theoretically is the general equilibrium framework ofinternational trade theory. Focusing on general...
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. In particular, we attempt to arrive at racial distribution data as well as data on inequality within race groups, which … to arrive at overall estimates of inequality and poverty; next we discuss the trends in poverty as derived from our data …
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' vulnerability to energy supply disruptions. Crude oil is stored in geologic formations, or salt domes, located under these …
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For over ten years, the Counterproliferation Analysis and Planning System (CAPS) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) has been a planning tool used by U.S. combatant commands for mission support planning against foreign programs engaged in the manufacture of weapons of mass...
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