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Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...
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Middle class values have long been perceived as drivers of social cohesion and growth. In this paper we investigate the relation between class (measured by the position in the income distribution), values, and political orientations using comparable values surveys for six Latin American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530308
This paper provides an analysis of the social consequences of people seeking to keep up with the Joneses. All individuals attempt to reach a higher rank than the Joneses, including the Joneses themselves. This attitude gives rise to an equilibrium in which all individuals have equal utilities...
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more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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inequality induces more government redistribution; (2) more government redistribution is financed by higher distortionary … inequality-growth transmission channel they propose, must therefore be assessed as overly simplistic and inadequate with respect …
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In this work, we study the short- and long-run properties of different inequality series vis-à-vis the most important … facts about inequality. The broad picture emerging from our empirical analysis is one where some common patterns coexist … together with several country specificities. More specifically, most of inequality series are not stationary; long …
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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through … considerable impact on the degree and structure of inequality and poverty (see Hauser 2008, Causa et al. 2009, Nolan et al. 2009 …
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