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Analysis of Poverty in Slovakia Based on the Concept of Relative Deprivation
Želinský, Tomáš - In: Politická ekonomie 2010 (2010) 4, pp. 542-565
It is always difficult to define the one and only measure of poverty, as there are different concepts of poverty based on a number of welfare indicators. The paper discuses main approaches to individual welfare measurement. A measure of individual welfare in the concept of relative deprivation...
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Has the level of achieved education affected the income of Czech households
Birčiaková, Naďa; Antošová, Veronika; Stávková, Jana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
education coefficient. Households at risk of poverty are also taken into account. Income inequality is measured by way of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259592
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Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics
Biewen, Martin - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) November, pp. 1-10
A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most countries, only a portion of people who are currently poor are persistently poor. People who are persistently poor or who cycle into and out of poverty should be the main focus of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143957
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Ingreso y desigualdad: ¿Cómo afectan a la felicidad en América Latina?
Gerstenblüth, Mariana; Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010
Latin America is known as the most unequal region in the world. However, the effect of income inequality on people … between the self-placement in the income scale and inequality is negatively related to happiness. Hence, individuals with … higher income levels will be happier in countries where inequality is lower. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833426
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Essays on Growth and Environment
Cialani, Catia - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2014
explores the relationship between income growth and income inequality using data at the municipal level in Sweden for the … period 1992-2007. We estimate a fixed effects panel data growth model, where the within-municipality income inequality is one … of the explanatory variables. Different inequality measures (Gini coefficient, top income shares, and measures of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019144
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Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
penetration. Keywords: cross-section models, income distribution, inequality, international economic order, economic welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556011
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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...
TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005
With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125619
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When Information Dominates Comparison: A Panel Data Analysis Using Russian Subjective Data
Senik, Claudia - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
exerts a positive influence on individual satisfaction, which contrasts with other studies on the subject. Inequality indices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005489913
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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity. Societal practice is the main challenge this concept...
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Non-monetary assessment of pro-poor growth in Nigeria: evidence from demographic and health surveys
Abayomi Samuel Oyekale* - In: Journal of Developing Areas 49 (2015) 1, pp. 107-132
Poverty analytical approaches have recently considered households deprivation in several welfare attributes in what has been tagged multidimensional poverty. This approach has been well embraced due to acceptability of human development indices as a parameter for comparing welfare across...
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