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differentiates a subset of states in experiments. With three or more states, informational separability leads to entropy measures …
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Do preferences for income inequality differ systematically between the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern … address this question. In particular, we examine whether attitudes to inequality differ between East and West even after the … inequality and other determinants of attitudes are taken into account. These results do not seem to be driven by a recent change …
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In this paper, the concept of Income Satisfaction Inequality is operationalized on the basis of individual responses to … analogue of the objective income concept and includes objective income inequality as a special case. The paper introduces a … method to decompose Income Satisfaction Inequality according to the contributions from variables such as income, education …
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This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...
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The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality …
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We study the interplay of inequality and trust in a dynamic game, in which trust increases efficiency and thus allows …
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Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight … household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality … rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is …
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Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …
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individual search specification implies gender differentials in lifetime utility inequality 74% larger. The results of our policy … experiments emphasize the importance of looking at lifetime utility inequality measures as opposed to simply cross-sectional wage … inequality measures. …
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