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Equivalence scales reconsidered: an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....
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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2007
Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324347
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International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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Inequality, inequity aversion, and the provision of public goods
Kölle, Felix; Sliwka, Dirk; Zhou, Nannan - 2011
We investigate the effects of inequality in wealth on the incentives to contribute to a public good when agents are inequity averse and may differ in ability. We show that equality may lead to a reduction of public good provision below levels generated by purely selfish agents. But introducing...
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Trade Liberalization and Welfare Inequality: a Demand-Based Approach
Tarasov, Alexander - 2010
in income consumers share identical but nonhomothetic preferences. Secondly, I consider a monopolistic competition …
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Inequality and aggregate savings in the neoclassical growth model
Foellmi, Reto - 2010
Within the context of the neoclassical growth model I investigate the implications of (initial) endowment inequality when the rich have a higher marginal savings rate than the poor. More unequal societies grow faster in the transition process, and therefore exhibit a higher speed of convergence....
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Aggregation and other biases in the calculation of consumer elasticities for models of arbitrary rank
Denton, Frank T.; Mountain, Dean C. - 2011
Consumer-related policy decisions often require analysis of aggregate responses or mean elasticities. However, in practice these mean elasticities are seldom used. Mean elasticities can be approximated using aggregate data, but that introduces aggregation bias for full and compensated price...
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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
considered here rests on the view that IT makes the acquisition of knowledge cheaper, which intensifies competition among workers … specialized in knowledge production. Those who lose in such competition end up displaced to occupations with a lower knowledge … inequality. The least skilled do not participate in this competition, as they are not specialized in knowledge production; they …
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Amartya Sens Capability-Approach: ein neues Konzept der deutschen Armuts- und Reichtumsberichterstattung
Arndt, Christian; Volkert, Jürgen - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 75 (2006) 1, pp. 7-29
Im zweiten Armuts- und Reichtumsbericht wurde der Ansatz der Verwirklichungschancen ("Capabilities") des Ökonomie-Nobelpreisträgers Amartya Sen als neue konzeptionelle Grundlage angekündigt. Wir erörtern knapp, inwiefern Sens ethisch fundierter Ansatz eine zielführende Konzeption für die...
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Zur Angleichung von Einkommen und Lebensqualität im vereinigten Deutschland
Goebel, Jan; Habich, Roland; Krause, Peter - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 78 (2009) 2, pp. 122-145
Der Übergang zur Marktwirtschaft erfolgte in Ostdeutschland im Unterschied zu anderen osteuropäischen Staaten unter dem Primat der sozialpolitischen Angleichung der Lebensbedingungen an das höhere Wohlstandsniveau der westlichen Bundesländer. Bezüglich der Wohlstandsentwicklung wie auch der...
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