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The distributional impact of common‐pool resource regulations

Ambec, Stefan; Sebi, Carine - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 4 (2011) 2, pp. 123-141

fairness properties: it reduces inequality while still rewarding the more efficient users. …

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Do WTO members employ less child labour?

Beaulieu, Eugene; Pakrashi, Debayan - In: Indian Growth and Development Review 6 (2013) 1, pp. 148-159

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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Learning the lessons from banding appeals : Evidence based guidance for running junior doctor rotas

Moreton, Adam; Jackson, Emma; Ahmed-Little, Yasmin - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 28 (2014) 1, pp. 62-76

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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Real Business Cycle Theory and the Great Depression: The Abandonment of the Abstentionist Viewpoint

De Vroey, Michel R; Pensieroso, Luca - In: Contributions in Macroeconomics 6 (2006) 1, pp. 1-26

Abstract Is the Great Depression amenable to real business cycle theory? In the 1970s and 1980s Lucas and Prescott took an abstentionist stance. They maintained that, because of its exceptional character, an explanation of the Great Depression was beyond the grasp of the equilibrium approach to...

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The Relationship Between Poverty and COVID-19 Infection and Case-Fatality Rates in Germany during the First Wave of the Pandemic

Ettensperger, Felix - In: Statistics, Politics and Policy 12 (2021) 2, pp. 299-321

Abstract The relationship between poverty and the infection and case-fatality rates of COVID-19 has emerged as a controversial but understudied topic. In previous studies and reports from the UK and US evidence emerged that poverty-related indicators had a significant statistical effect on case...

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Causes and Consequences of Income Inequality – An Overview

Polacko, Matthew - In: Statistics, Politics and Policy 12 (2021) 2, pp. 341-357

Abstract Rising income inequality is one of the greatest challenges facing advanced economies today. Income inequality … technological development. Instead, this review shows that inequality has largely been driven by a multitude of political choices … inequality. These preventable causes have led to demonstrable harmful outcomes that are not explicable solely by material …

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The Politics of Income Inequality: Redistribution, Turnout and Responsiveness

Polacko, Matthew - In: Statistics, Politics and Policy 13 (2022) 2, pp. 201-218

Abstract Income inequality is viewed as one of the greatest challenges facing democracies today. Democracy is … predicated on the ideal of equality, but political inequality occurs when the preferences of some are systematically afforded … political inequality to arise through preference formation, articulation, and aggregation, by outlining the effects that income …

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Lower Inequality and Lower Development: A Contradiction Sensitivity Analysis of Jammu and Kashmir

Mushtaq, Saeed Owais; Iqbal Khan, Javaid; Majeed, Mehak - In: Statistics, Politics and Policy 13 (2022) 3, pp. 315-345

investigations have confirmed the facts that the measures of poverty and inequality are sensitive to various choices of equivalence … scales. Therefore, standard measures provide mostly overestimated poverty and inequality estimates. Further, poverty … lower poverty in the region and at the same time discover a growth in inequality over time. While a mixed result is derived …

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Household income inequality in Ghana: a decomposition analysis

Novignon, Jacob - In: African Journal of Economic and Management Studies 8 (2017) 4, pp. 515-526

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to decompose income inequality across various household income components and to … estimate the marginal effects of changes in each of the income components on overall income inequality in Ghana. Design … suggest that, in general, income inequality has increased marginally over the years (Gini coefficient of 0.66 in 2013 and 0 …

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Inequities in the allocation of medical resources in China’s Township Health Centers

Ma, Yue; Zhang, Linxiu; Boswell, Matthew - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 8 (2016) 4, pp. 637-646

investigate the extent of inequality in allocation of resources within THCs across China. …

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