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indices related to socio-economic inequality, such as the Gini index, human development index, or gender inequality index …, along with purely economic variables, such as GDP per capita and government expenditure on education. The study covered 70 … insignificant, indicating income inequality had little effect on students’ PISA performance. On the other hand, the gender …
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The Item Characteristic Curve describes the relationship between the probability of correctly answering a question and the ability presumed to be required to answer the question. Since ability is a latent variable, distributional assumptions must be imposed on it in order to estimate such...
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In this paper we revisit the relationship between democracy, redistribution, and inequality. We first explain the … theoretical reasons why democracy is expected to increase redistribution and reduce inequality, and why this expectation may fail … such activities, thus exacerbating inequality among a large part of the population. We then survey the existing empirical …
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education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between … in education, gender inequality in educational attainment has consistently been declining over time. The same consistent …
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In this paper, I examine whether Hyman P. Minsky adopted an endogenous money approach in his early work - at the time that he was first developing his financial instability approach. In an earlier piece (Wray 1992), I closely examined Minsky's published writings to support the argument that,...
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United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …
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The past decades the problem of income inequality and welfare segregation has presented itself as one of the biggest … into decreasing the income inequality witch has risen for average 4% annually over the past 15 years, according to the GINI … index. The problem of income inequality for Republic of Macedonia starches further as the country presents itself as one the …
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Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument - the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …
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