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The paper analyses economic inequality in Croatia in comparison with other transition economies of Central, East and … of income inequality. The decomposition analysis of the period 2000-2006 shows that, although the concentration of income … from paid employment was rising, overall stability of income inequality was due to a reduction of the more unequally …
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background of rising economic inequality in industrialized countries and the ongoing assessment of its root causes, analyses of … mutual stimulation between income flows and wealth stocks contributes to rising inequality. We analyze the extent of the …
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inequality and economic growth, implying the conclusion that inequality reducing policies will foster economic growth. The … likely to suffer from a severe weak instrument problem in the inequality-growth setting because lagged differences of … inequality have practically no explanatory power for current inequality levels. Thus, it is biased in the direction of OLS and …
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This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and … institute (CBOS) from 1992 to 2005, we identify a structural break in the relationship between income inequality and subjective … well-being. The downturn in the tolerance for inequality (1997) coincides with increasing distrust of political elites. …
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from disadvantaged backgrounds. As it turns out, the majority of the German public perceives inequality in educational …
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policy interacts with redistributive policy and how income inequality affects the degree and the polarization of the …
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A Note on the Evolution of Inequality in Poland, 1992-99 (reprinted from Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 27, No. 5 …, 2003, pp. 755-768, by permission of Cambridge Political Economy Society) Income inequality in Poland, after falling over … losers. While the overall position of wage-earners improved, wage inequality increased sharply in the second half of the 1990 …
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government ideology and elections influence outcomes (income inequality and budget consolidation) and political processes (fiscal …
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Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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Digitalization of work has been made responsible for an increase in labor market inequalities, not only with respect to job loss, but also concerning an increased polarization of the remaining jobs due to processes of devaluation and upgrading of jobs and occupations. However, the discussion...
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