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Inequality and poverty when effort matters
Ravallion, Martin - In: Econometrics : open access journal 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-19
On the presumption that poorer people tend to work less, it is often claimed that standard measures of inequality and poverty are overestimates. The paper points to a number of reasons to question this claim. It is shown that, while the labor supplies of American adults have a positive income...
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Inequality within countries is falling : underreporting robust estimates of world poverty, inequality, and the global distribution of income
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; … - 2024
Household surveys suffer from persistent and growing underreporting. We propose a novel procedure to adjust reported survey incomes for underreporting by estimating a model of misreporting whose main parameter of interest is the elasticity of regional national accounts income to regional survey...
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Yours inclusively? : income mobility in Ireland, 10 years of tax record microdata
Kennedy, Seán; Haugh, David; Stanley, Brian - 2019
. This new study, based on more than 20 million tax records over 10 years, examines the highest income earners in Ireland but … income and pay around 2/3 of all income tax. Unlike other OECD countries, the top 1% has not expanded its gross income share …, partly due to long range downward mobility during the recession for those with the highest incomes. Moreover, more …
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The Long Shadow of the Past : Political Economy of Regional Inequality in Colombia
Fergusson, Leopoldo - 2017
We study the nature of regional inequality in Colombia over the past 200 years. The main empirical fact is that regional inequality has been highly persistent despite the large changes that have taken place and the modernization of the society. We show that regional inequality is highly...
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Relative deprivation and individual well-being : low status and a feeling of relative deprivation are detrimental to health and happiness
Chen, Xi - 2015
People who are unable to maintain the same standard of living as others around them experience a sense of relative deprivation that has been shown to reduce feelings of well-being. Relative deprivation reflects conditions of worsening relative poverty despite striking reductions in absolute...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011430756
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Financial Inequality, Group Entitlements and Populism
Favaretto, Federico - 2019
This paper shows how financial inequality and misbeliefs about group entitlements can increase the consensus for populist parties. Given a banking shock, traditional and populist parties propose alternative bailout policies, where short termism characterizes the populistic policy. The citizens...
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Inequalities and Identities
Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2018
We introduce concepts and measures relating to inequality between identity groups. We define and discuss the concepts of Representational Inequality, Sequence Inequality and Group Inequality Comparison. Representational Inequality captures the extent to which an attribute is shared between...
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How the planned perversion of democracy generated accelerating inequalities
Parguez, Alain - In: Journal of contemporary economic and business issues 3 (2016) 2, pp. 49-59
the rule of law and thereby the welfare of people, and the indomitable tendency of rising and unsustainable inequality in …
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Inequality, Participation, and Polarization
Vlaicu, Razvan - 2017
The upward co-movement of income inequality and partisan polarization in the U.S. is typically attributed to intensified class conflict or a political wealth bias. This paper formalizes a theory of polarization where changes in the income distribution do not affect citizens' policy preferences,...
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Misperceiving inequality
Gimpelʹson, Vladimir E.; Treisman, Daniel - 2015
Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization and promote class conflict and revolution in...
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