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Who got what, then and now? : a fifty year overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay - 2015 - This version: May 8, 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … distribution has become more relatively equal due to falling inter-country relative inequality, and that by some measures global … "inequality convergence" with previously more equal countries becoming less equal over time and the obverse. We provide support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010516605
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Misperceptions of income distributions : cross-country evidence from a randomized survey experiment
Bublitz, Elisabeth - 2016
Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011572693
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Misperceptions of income distributions : cross-country evidence from a randomized survey experiment
Bublitz, Elisabeth - 2017
Meltzer and Richard (1981), higher initial inequality levels do not correlate positively with redistribution. I conduct a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011687329
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The role of female population, urbanization and trade openness in sustainable environment : the case of carbon dioxide emissions in Ghana
Marfo, Emmanuel Opoku; Kwakwa, Paul Adjei; Aboagye, Solomon - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19
Sustainable environment offers many benefits to individuals and societies. As a result, the agenda to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in order to mitigate climate change remains a global concern. Researchers, policymakers and governments have shown interest in this regard. Empirical studies on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014503015
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Economic growth and environment in the United Kingdom : robust evidence using more than 250 years data
Amar, Amine Ben - In: Environmental economics and policy studies : the … 23 (2021) 4, pp. 667-681
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012659531
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The Smallest General-Equilibrium Model in the World - Major Lessons for Tax Policy
Maillard, Didier - 2013
General-Equilibrium (GE) models were revived in the mid 1980s, in the computable form allowed by the progresses of information technology. They have been applied to the assessment of many economic policies, especially taxation, international trade and intergenerational transfers. A new recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085157
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Relative Rank and Life Satisfaction : Evidence from US Households
Brown, Gordon D. A. - 2017
inequality is high. We conclude that social comparison effects underpin the relationship between economic status and subjective … well-being, and that concern with social status is higher when income inequality is high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963600
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Sociology of sociology : strengthening the role of social sciences as a new priority of climate and sustainability policy
Strzałkowski, Andrzej - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 16 (2016) 3, pp. 453-468
Today, there are a lot of studies on climate change and sustainability from social sciences’ perspectives. Achievements of sociology, psychology or political sciences can be extremely helpful in designing, adopting, implementing and evaluating of effective climate and sustainability policy....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011565579
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011588170
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Economic inequality and subjective well-being across the world
Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2018
We here use repeated cross-section data from the Afrobarometer, Asianbarometer Latinobarometer, and Eurobarometer to analyse the variables that are correlated with both current and future evaluations of standards of living. These are related not only to an individual's own economic resources but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947084