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Social mobility and inequality between groups
Funjika, Patricia; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2020
groups in many societies. Group-based discrimination, among other factors, contributes. The paper further explores empirical …
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Inherited Discrimination and Inequality
Mialon, Sue H. - 2022
characteristics of low-income group. Discrimination induces welfare losses by reducing the opportunities to discover true talents. The …This paper examines the relationship between inequality and discrimination. Using a simple model of competitive … signaling, this paper shows that income inequality motivates discrimination against low-income group. It is parents' investment …
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Endogenous timing and income inequality in the voluntary provision of public goods : theory and experiment
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue; Kurosaka, Kengo - 2018
This paper investigates how the heterogenous incomes and preferences of potential donors affect the timing of contribution decisions when it is endogenously determined by contributors themselves. More specifically, we use a simple setting with two donors, Cobb-Douglas preferences, and complete...
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Improving public good supply and income equality : facing a trade-off
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Rübbelke, Dirk T. G. - 2020
It is explored in this paper how – depending on the agents' preferences – an unequal income distribution may lead to a higher public good supply in a non-cooperative Nash equilibrium than in a cooperative Lindahl equilibrium that arises from a balanced income distribution. The degree of...
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Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality : diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discrimination
D'Agostino, Giorgio; Giuli, Francesco; Lorusso, Marco; … - 2020
Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in …
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The Distributive Impact of Fiscal Policy in Cameroon : Tax and Benefit Incidence
Atemnkeng, Johannes Tabi; Akwi, Tafah; Anzah, Etoh - 2018
Most fiscal incidence studies neither analyze simultaneously the tax and benefit incidence (simply known as net fiscal incidence) nor actually relate poverty indices to fiscal impact. This paper jointly and separately examines the redistributive and poverty effects of the tax and transfer...
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Do high incomes reflect individual performance? The determinants of high incomes in Germany
Hirschel, Dierk - 2003
or sexual discrimination. …
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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics
Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work of Oaxaca and Blinder in the early 1970s. These methods are used to decompose the difference in a distributional statistic between two groups, or its change over time, into...
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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En-Gendering Economic Inequality
Gilman, Michele E. - 2016
We live in an era of growing economic inequality. Luminaries ranging from the President to the Pope to economist Thomas Piketty in his bestselling book Capital in the Twenty- First Century have raised alarms about the disparity between the haves and the have-nots. Overlooked, however, in these...
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