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Inequality and Network Structure
Iyengar, Garud - 2008
This paper explores the manner in which the structure of a social network constrains the level of inequality that can … be sustained among its members. We assume that any distribution of value across the network must be stable with respect … network. We show that if the network is bipartite, there is a unique stable payoff distribution that is maximally unequal in …
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Health and income : a robust comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Echevin, Damien - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905283
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The impact of federal social policies on spatial income inequalities in Germany : empirical evidence from social security data
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Schwengler, Barbara - 2009
Fast zwanzig Jahre nach der deutschen Wiedervereinigung gibt es immer noch erhebliche regionale Einkommensunterschiede zwischen West- und Ostdeutschland. Der Artikel soll zeigen, wie die Transferzahlungen des Staates diese Einkommensdisparitäten ausgleichen. In einem ersten Schritt untersuchen...
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Inequality measurement with subgroup decomposability and level-sensitivity
Subramanian, Sreenivasan - 2011
Subgroup Decomposability is a very useful property in an inequality measure, and level-sensitivity, which requires a given level of inequality to acquire a greater significance the poorer a population is, is a distributionally appealing axiom for an inequality index to satisfy. In this paper,...
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Health disparities by income in Spain before and after the economic crisis
Coveney, Max; Gomez, Pilar Garcia; Doorslaer, Eddy Van; … - 2015
Little is known about what the economic crisis has done to health disparities by income. We apply a decomposition method to unravel the contributions of income growth, income inequality and differential income mobility across socio-demographic groups to changes in health disparities by income in...
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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015
Using newly comprehensive data and tools from the Global Consumption and Income Project or CGIP, covering most of the world and five decades, we present a portrait of the changing global distribution of consumption and income and discuss its implications for our understanding of inequality,...
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Sectoral trends in earnings inequality and employment International trade, skill-biased technological change, or labour market institutions?
Thewissen, Stefan; Wang, Chen; Vliet, Olaf van - 2013
Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than...
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Rising inequalities in income and health in China : who is left behind?
Baeten, Steef; Van Ourti, Tom; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722984
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Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures
Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
Single parents and unmarried couples are increasingly replacing the traditional nuclear family. This paper investigates if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany. Children in single parent families are disadvantaged in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440704
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Effects of siblings and birth order on income redistribution preferences : evidence based on Japanese general social survey
Yamamura, Eiji - 2012
The Japanese General Social Survey was used to determine how individual preferences for income redistribution are affected by family structure, such as the number of siblings and birth order where individuals grow up. After controlling for various individual characteristics, the important...
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