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Status concern and the feelings of relative deprivation affect individual behavior and well-being. Traditional norms and the alarming inequality in China have made relative deprivation more and more intense for the Chinese population. This paper reviews empirical literature on China that...
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community as well as policymakers. This Weekly Report investigates the income, work, and health satisfaction of the German … satisfaction as well as income, work, and health satisfaction have either increased or remained constant since 2004. However …, differences between groups, some quite significant, still remain, especially in terms of health satisfaction. Comparatively, low …
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life", such as health and equality of opportunity. However, per capita GDP has the virtues of easy interpretation and can … preserves the advantages of per capita GDP, but also includes health and equality. We propose a new parsimonious indicator to …
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Air pollution generates vast health burdens and economic costs around the world. Pollution exposure varies greatly …
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Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
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Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864650
The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …
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Using a dynamic panel approach, we provide empirical evidence that negative health shocks reduce earnings. The effect … health. We build a dynamic, general equilibrium, life cycle model that is consistent with these findings. In the model …, individuals whose health is risky and heterogeneous choose to either work, or not work and apply for social security disability …
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: education of household members; childhood and youth conditions; health; employment; and access to household utilities and living …
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People in Canada and the U.S. often make claims regarding whose country has a better health system. Several researchers … have attempted to address this question by analysing subjective health in the two countries, thus assuming a common … definition of “good” health. Using data from the Joint Canada/U.S. Survey of Health, I generate quasi-objective health indices …
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