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Bringing Inequality Back in : The Economic Inequality Footprint of Management and Organizational Practices
Riaz, Suhaib - 2015
In this article, I argue for ‘bringing inequality back in' to organizational research in order to investigate the role of management and organizational practices in macro-level economic inequality. To set an agenda in this area, I suggest considering three loci where the links between...
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Unit Nonresponse Bias in Inequality Measurement : Worldwide Analysis Using Luxembourg Income Study Database
Hlasny, Vladimir - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012903486
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The Impact of Top Incomes Biases on the Measurement of Inequality in the United States
Hlasny, Vladimir - 2018
The paper re-estimates the Gini inequality index for the United States using the Current Population Survey between 1979 and 2014 and two alternative correction methods for top income biases. Top incomes in household surveys are affected by a variety of biases related to survey design, income...
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A matter of perspective : how experience shapes preferences for redistribution
Cassar, Lea; Klein, Arnd Heinrich - 2017
-selection into different outcomes of the tournament and can be explained by in- or out-group bias and a self-serving bias in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588059
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Impact of inequality-related media coverage on the concerns of the citzens
Diermeier, Matthias; Goecke, Henry; Niehues, Judith; … - 2017
Income distribution and inequality play a central role in the public and political debate in many developed and democratic countries. An increasing literature on (mis)perception of the distribution of income reveals that people have very little knowledge about the degree of inequality in the...
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Upward and downward bias when measuring inequality of opportunity
Brunori, Paolo; Pergaine, Vito; Serlenga, Laura - 2018
downward bias resulting from the partial observability of circumstances that affect individual outcome. We show that such … estimates may also suffer from upward bias as a consequence of sampling variance. The magnitude of the latter distortion depends … contributions, the upward bias may be significant and challenge the interpretation of inequality of opportunity estimates as lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816080
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Increasing income inequality : productivity, bargaining and skill-upgrading
Frederiksen, Anders; Poulsen, Odile - 2010
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of the model is that it can accommodate shocks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003941761
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Who benefits from meritocracy?
Moreira, Diana B.; Pérez, Santiago - 2022
Does screening applicants using exams help or hurt the chances of lower-SES candidates? Because individuals from lower socioeconomic backgrounds fare, on average, worse than those from richer backgrounds in standardized tests, a common concern with this “meritocratic” approach is that it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013260123
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Increasing Income Inequality : Productivity, Bargaining and Skill-Upgrading
Frederiksen, Anders - 2010
In recent decades most developed countries have experienced an increase in income inequality. In this paper, we use an equilibrium search framework to shed additional light on what is causing an income distribution to change. The major benefit of the model is that it can accommodate shocks to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147124
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Educational Quality and Income Distribution : An Empirical Analysis
Georgiou, Miltiades N. - 2010
According to the study of (Hanushek and Wößmann, 2007) it was found among others that the skills of the population – rather than mere school attainment – are powerfully related to individual earnings, to the distribution of income, and to economic growth. In the present paper author will...
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