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This paper makes an assessment of Nepalese poverty situation during 1977 - 1997 using a comparative static approach. Income and human poverty indices have been estimated using World Bank and UNDP methods, respectively. Moreover, it also makes exploratory analysis to study the causes and nature...
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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799747
We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...
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Preserving environmental quality and addressing economic inequality both feature prominently in public discourse … consider interactions with the other. We synthesize theoretical mechanisms that underpin inequality-environment interlinkages … distribution of environmental amenities and dis-amenities is associated with income and wealth, second, how economic inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694139
Using a constructed data series and another data series based on AMPS (the All Media and Products Survey), this paper explores trends in poverty and income distribution over the post-transition period. To steer clear of an unduly optimistic conclusion, assumptions are chosen that would tend to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005523219
We examine the interplay between changes in the functional distribution of income and the distribution of market income among households. We use micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel as well as macro data from the German Federal Statistical Office from 2002 to 2008. We categorize and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010564002
The hypothesis is that Pareto and Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency have an aspect of sustainability in relation to inequality …. The analysis finds efficient situations reached increasing inequality as diminishing in the long term effective demand in …
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We study the effects on inequality of a "Piketty transition" to zero growth. In a model with a worker …-capitalist dichotomy, we show first that the relationship between inequality (measured as a ratio of incomes for the two types) and growth … is complicated; zero growth can raise or lower inequality, depending on parameters. Extending our model to include …
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captures the main patterns of inequality, between and within the social groupings. We find that the effects of peer pressure on … within-group inequality differ between groups. We also find that wealth and consumption inequality increase within groups who … aspire to match social targets from a higher class, despite a reduction in within-group inequality in hours and earnings. …
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main patterns of inequality, between and within the social groupings. We find that the effects of peer pressure on within …-group inequality differ between groups. We also find that wealth and consumption inequality increase within groups who aspire to match … social targets from a higher class, despite a reduction in within-group inequality in hours and earnings. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103597