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In many countries extreme poverty is unnecessary. Yet it persists. We propose a simple index, denoted the Miser index, to measure the extent to which societies have poverty in the midst of affluence. It builds on the generalized Lorenz curve, but can also be seen as a measure of polarization...
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Rising inequality and widespread poverty, social unrest and polarization, gender and ethnic disparities, declining …
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This paper shows that within-country happiness inequality has fallen in the majority of countries that have experienced … declare low and high levels of happiness. Rising income inequality moderates the fall in happiness inequality, and may even … the happiness of all, it will at least harmonize the happiness of all, providing that income inequality does not grow too …
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economic development. The empirical analysis performed in the thesis, and summarised here, focuses on two mayor world trends in … modern economic development, namely increasing agglomeration and rising inequalities within countries. In particular, the …
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In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …
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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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