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Inequality and Network Structure
Iyengar, Garud - 2008
This paper explores the manner in which the structure of a social network constrains the level of inequality that can … be sustained among its members. We assume that any distribution of value across the network must be stable with respect … network. We show that if the network is bipartite, there is a unique stable payoff distribution that is maximally unequal in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012723139
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Preferences for inequality: East vs. West
Suhrcke, Marc - 2001
Do preferences for income inequality differ systematically between the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western established market economies? This paper analyses 1999 data from a large international survey to address this question. In particular, we examine whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295562
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Rising Inequalities in Income and Health in China: Who is left behind?
Baeten, Steef; Ourti, Tom Van; Doorslaer, Eddy Van - 2012
During the last decades, China has experienced double-digit economic growth rates and rising inequality. This paper implements a new decomposition on the China Health and Nutrition panel Survey (1991-2006) to examine the extent to which changes in level and distribution of incomes and in income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326333
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Health and income: a robust comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Échevin, Damien - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269622
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Assessing the equalizing force of mobility using short panels: France, 1990 - 2000
Bonhomme, Stéphane; Robin, Jean-Marc - 2007
In this paper, we document whether and how much the equalizing force of earnings mobility has changed in France in the 1990s. For this purpose, we use a representative three-year panel,the French Labour Force Survey. We develop a model of earnings dynamics that combines a flexible specification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010318492
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Health and income : a robust comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Echevin, Damien - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003905283
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Rising inequalities in income and health in China : who is left behind?
Baeten, Steef; Van Ourti, Tom; Van Doorslaer, Eddy - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722984
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Childrenś opportunities in Germany : an application using multidimensional measures
Bartels, Charlotte; Stockhausen, Maximilian - 2016
Single parents and unmarried couples are increasingly replacing the traditional nuclear family. This paper investigates if the greater variety in living arrangements contributes to increased resource disparities among children in Germany. Children in single parent families are disadvantaged in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440704
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The centre cannot hold : patterns of polarization in Nigeria
Clementi, Fabio; Dabalen, Andrew L.; Molini, Vasco; … - 2014
Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for Nigeria; the limited availability of comparable data has hindered an investigation that requires data series not too close in time. The present paper tries to overcome this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010433391
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Health and Income : A Robust Comparison of Canada and the US
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2009
This paper uses sequential stochastic dominance procedures to compare the joint distribution of health and income across space and time. It is the first application of which we are aware of methods to compare multidimensional distributions of income and health using procedures that are robust to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155155