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Urban income inequality and social welfare

Koster, Paul - 2023 - Version: March 2023

When income inequality increases when average income levels increase, rises in average income levels might result in … inequality costs. This paper develops marginal social welfare measures that account for the possibility that income inequality … changes when average income levels change. Applications are given for the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. For this city …

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Welfare as simple(x) equity equivalents

Berger, Loïc; Emmerling, Johannes - 2017

Inequity plays a fundamental role in the evaluation of social welfare in many dimensions.We revisit the concept of inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations (intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the...

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Selection effects, inequality, and aggregate gains from trade

Nigai, Sergey - In: Journal of international economics 142 (2023), pp. 1-25

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Fairness, Trade, and Inequality

Egger, Hartmut - 2008

this framework international trade increases income inequality between entrepreneurs and workers, and also inequality …We develop a model of international trade between two symmetric countries that features inter-group inequality between …

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Fairness, Trade, and Inequality

Egger, Hartmut; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2021

We develop a model of international trade between two symmetric countries that features inter-group inequality between … this framework international trade leads to a self-selection of the best firms into export status, and aggregate welfare … increases if this selection effect is sufficiently strong. Gains from trade are accompanied by larger inequality along multiple …

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - 2016

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …

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Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials

Kerr, William R. - 2012

In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …

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Measuring welfare, inequality and poverty with ordinal variables

Silber, Jacques; Yalonetzky, Gastón - 2021

The key challenge in making distributional comparisons with ordinal data is the lack of commensurability of the distances between the ordered categories. This chapter provides a critical review of the most recent theoretical developments addressing this challenge and providing methods for...

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Inequality, social mobility and convergence : patterns across the Indian states

Bhusana Dash, Bharatee; Winer, Stanley L. - 2025 - This draft, 7-6-25

Inequality and social mobility in India are longstanding social issues. We document patterns of absolute inequality, relative inequality and social mobility for India as a whole as well as for Indian states grouped by level of development. The analysis uses easy to understand indexes constructed...

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Spatial consumption inequality in Mozambique

Gradín, Carlos - 2024

In this paper, I show that the trend in spatial inequality in Mozambique almost entirely explains the outstanding surge in inequality in the country over the past decade, as well as its decline immediately after the pandemic, in contrast to its secondary role in the earliest years. For this...

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