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Affirmative action around the world : insights from a new dataset
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Schotte, Simone; Kim, Min J. - 2023
Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach for addressing group-based inequalities along ethnic, religious, and racial lines (e.g. horizontal inequalities). It is adopted in dozens of countries around the world in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250060
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Affirmative action around the world : insights from a new dataset (update)
Gisselquist, Rachel M.; Kim, Min J.; Schotte, Simone; … - 2024
Affirmative action, or positive discrimination favouring the members of marginalized populations, is a key policy approach to addressing group-based inequalities. It is adopted in dozens of countries around the world in the areas of, for instance, university enrolment, public employment, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635280
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Critical remarks on Piketty’s "Capital in the Twenty-first Century"
Homburg, Stefan - In: Applied economics 47 (2015) 13/15, pp. 1401-1406
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010512052
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the Eurozone : a cross-country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2015
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288530
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Health and inequality
O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Van Ourti, Tom - 2013
inequality. In high income countries, the evidence that income (wealth) does have a causal impact on health in adulthood is weak …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224791
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Multidimensional affluence : theory and applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 31/33, pp. 4591-4601
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225018
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Critical remarks on Piketty’s ’Capital in the twenty-first century’
Homburg, Stefan - 2014
This paper is about “Capital in the Twenty-first Century” by Thomas Piketty. It identifies his central macroeconomic claims and examines them, arguing that the contentions are theoretically and empirically unwarranted.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010349913
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Wealth
Hamilton, Kirk; Hepburn, Cameron - In: Oxford review of economic policy 30 (2014) 1, pp. 1-20
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466872
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone : a cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that the percentage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010459794
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Financialization, wealth and the changing political aftermaths of banking crises
Chwieroth, Jeffrey M.; Walter, Andrew - In: Socio-economic review 20 (2022) 1, pp. 55-84
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013253698