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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
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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Faktencheck Gerechtigkeit und Verteilung: Eine empirische Überprüfung wichtiger Stereotype
Beznoska, Martin; Henger, Ralph M.; Hentze, Tobias; … - 2016
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Energy security, poverty and vulnerability in Central Asia and the wider European neighbourhood
Slay, Ben - 2009
This paper seeks to disaggregate concerns about energy security within the wider European neighbourhood from the nation-state to the household, and particularly to poor households in the transition and developing economies of the former Soviet Union. It argues that two decades of...
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Global food price shock and the poor in Egypt and Ukraine
Aboulenein, Soheir; El Laithy, Heba; Helmy, Omneia; … - 2010
The global food price shock of 2006-2008 has particularly affected poorer strata of populations in several developing countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and...
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Persistenz von Selbstständigen in der Grundsicherung
Pahnke, André; Schneck, Stefan; Wolter, Hans-Jürgen - 2019
Die vorliegende Untersuchung setzt sich mit der Situation von Selbstständigen in der Grund-sicherung auseinander. Ursächlich für den Bezug von ergänzenden Leistungen der Grundsi-cherung sind in den meisten Fällen deutlich rückläufige Einkommen. Tatsächlich ist die Ein-kommenssituation...
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Drivers of Inequality and Poverty in the CEE and other EU Member States
Leitner, Sebastian; Stehrer, Robert - 2014
Inequality is a multidimensional phenomenon though it is often discussed along a single dimension such as income. This … is also the case for the various decomposition approaches of inequality indices by recipients or income sources. In this … paper we study one- and multidimensional indices on inequality on data for CEE EU Member States in comparison to other EU …
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The socio-economic module of the Berlin Aging Study II (SOEP-BASE): Description, structure, and questionnaire
Boeckenhoff, Anke; Saßenroth, Denise; Kroh, Martin; … - 2020
The Berlin Aging Study II (BASE-II) is a multidisciplinary study that allows for the investigation of how a multitude of health status factors as well as many other social and economic outcomes interplay. The sample consists of 1,600 participants aged 60 to 80, and 600 participants aged 20 to...
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The regional distribution of income and wages: Causes and consequences
Immel, Lea - 2021
-called Hartz reforms on income inequality in German regions. Chapter 3 investigates the long-term effect of university openings on …
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
inequality, institutions, and economic and infrastructure policies can influence welfare and political stability. Chapter 2 … influences income inequality. Chapter 4 uses a case study to discuss how infrastructure policies can affect regional economic …
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Wohlstand für alle? Inklusives Einkommenswachstum vor Corona. IW-Verteilungsreport 2021
Stockhausen, Maximilian; Maiworm, Kai - 2021
Im Lichte der Bundestagswahl widmet sich der IW-Verteilungsreport 2021 der Frage, ob die besonders in Wahlkampfzeiten oft bemühte Behauptung einer sich weiter öffnenden Einkommensschere zwischen Arm und Reich der Faktenlage standhält. Dazu wird neben der Entwicklung der Primärverteilung...
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