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fairness properties: it reduces inequality while still rewarding the more efficient users.  …
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Purpose – Trade liberalization could either exacerbate or ameliorate the incidence of child labour. This paper aims to examine the effect of trade liberalization through membership in the GATT/WTO on the incidence of child labour across countries and over time. The authors examine child labour...
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Purpose – Designing and running robust junior doctor rotas is a challenging task and much previous advice has been based on consensus or anecdote. This paper aims to discern the most frequently occurring problems with trainee working patterns and produce evidence-based guidance for...
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provision of social justice in the form of the fight against poverty, inequality and unemployment and maintenance of political …
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Abstract Recent increases in automation and unemployment have aggravated income inequality in India. Thus, it is … imperative for policy-makers to cut down on inequality and unemployment while promoting planned automation. This paper proposes a … joint solution to reform India’s taxation framework to fight income inequality while promoting planned automation. The paper …
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Zusammenfassung Der Beitrag analysiert die Einflussmöglichkeiten des Staates bei der Gestaltung von Arbeitsbedingungen am Beispiel der Lohnsetzung. Der Vergleich von drei Ländern mit vergleichsweise inklusiven Lohnsystemen - Schweden, Frankreich und Deutschland - veranschaulicht, dass der...
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responsive to increases in inequality. A substantial literature on the impacts of inequality on economic growth exists, but has … increased levels of income inequality. This paper departs from that literature by exploring the effect of inequality on the … standard of living of middle-income and low-income families. In the context of rising inequality, increased overall growth is …
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Abstract This paper examines inequality and mobility using measures of income and consumption. Consumption is claimed … to be a better measure of permanent income and thus well-being, but most studies of inequality and mobility using U … examine changes in inequality and mobility. Similar to earlier findings, we show that there has been a large increase in …
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Abstract Does more wealth inequality lead to more inequitable trade policies? To answer this question, this study … wealth inequality leads to more equitable trade policies. In a pro-capitalist regime, an increase in wealth inequality leads … to more inequitable trade policies. Using cross-country data on political ideology, wealth inequality and different …
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inequality in both wealth and income follow a countercyclical pattern: the former is countercyclical because labor income is more …
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