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income, relative income (i.e. how individual income compares to those of peers), individual health, and relative health … contribute to these inequalities. The analysis focuses on the population aged 50 and over, using data from the ‘Survey of Health …, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe’ and the ‘Health and Retirement Study’ for the US. All countries display some socioeconomic …
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It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … the European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we …
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pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 … fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the …
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pandemic reduced household income, increased the poverty rate, and worsened wage equality. It increased the proportion of below …Despite a sizable population and modest status as a low middle-income country, Vietnam has recorded a low COVID-19 … fatality rate that rivals those of richer countries with far larger spending on health. We offer an early review of the …
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comprising of in- come inequality, education, and health outcomes affect poverty reduction. The study uses a panel dataset of the …-GMM). The results show that GDP per capita exerts significant negative effect on poverty while inequality, education and health … outcomes do not show significant effect on poverty. Although, the estimates of inequality, health and education outcomes are …
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Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using … microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living … analysis in support of the European Commission's stated objective of fighting poverty and reducing social inequality through …
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poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has … been stagnant over time despite sharp rises in income. Consumption taxes on status-seeking spending, along with official …
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