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There is still much uncertainty about the impact of income inequality on health and mortality. Some studies have … inequality in the municipality of residence, measured by the Gini coefficient, affected mortality in men and women aged 30-89 in … about the existence of harmful health effects of income inequality, and especially in a Nordic context. …
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Information from the Survey of Italian Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) is not normally used as a basis for regional … results confirm the traditional scenario: northern and central regions show greater average values for both income and wealth … equivalent income and a distributional index, the gap between southern regions and northern and central ones grows even larger …
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In response to an increasing demand for rigorous monitoring of state accountability in meeting their human rights obligations, a growing literature on human rights measurement has emerged. Yet there are no widely used indicators or indices of human rights obligations fulfillment. This paper...
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In response to an increasing demand for rigorous monitoring of state accountability in meeting their human rights obligations, a growing literature on human rights measurement has emerged. Yet there are no widely used indicators or indices of human rights obligations fulfillment. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005800253
values provided by Statistics New Zealand. Measures of income inequality and poverty, along with the incidence of income tax …, do not have a significant impact on population-level measures of income inequality. …
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, we use data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (2002–17) to examine the level of and inequality in wealth for children … mainly explained with compositional differences in household income and employment characteristics. Beyond level differences …, inequality between children from single-parent families is higher than for other family types and this inequality can only partly …
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older ages. As such, the aging of the US population has placed upward pressure on standard measures of earnings inequality …
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In this paper, we examine the consequences of imperfect information on the pattern of transfers from parents to children. Drawing on the theory of mechanism design, we consider a model of family contract with two levels of effort. We prove that equal transfers among children are expected under...
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values provided by Statistics New Zealand. Measures of income inequality and poverty, along with the incidence of income tax …, do not have a significant impact on population-level measures of income inequality. …
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due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is motivated by the possibility that distributive concerns should …
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