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great inequality which also eventually resulted in slowing down of investment and growth and other problems like inflation …
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stability for many workers. On the negative side, the wage growth for many groups of workers is unsatisfactory. Wage inequality …
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The Great Recession has exposed several failings in the mainstream economics profession, including a generalised neglect of the macro role of debt and of banking. Steve Keen has proposed an alternative approach to macroeconomics which he sometimes labels as the...
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inequality and narrow middle-class such as Apartheid South Africa. The presence of a credible threat of capital flight is shown … to render democracy less unpleasant to the elites by making future tax concessions possible. However, inequality should …
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This paper measures inequality of opportunity in adult health in Colombia employing the 2010 Living Standards and … Roemer (1998)'s analytical approach to inequality of opportunity. I use stochastic dominance tests to capture differences in … the conditional distributions of self-assessed health. This test is an initial assessment of inequality emerging from …
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directly by diminished allocative efficiency and incentives to acquire education, and indirectly by higher wage inequality and …
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differential access constitutes a source of inequality among poor individuals belonging to different communities. We show that this …
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inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating a¤ects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …
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flavours include inequality, risk, social welfare and justice. The issue of personal involvement in the distributional …
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countries. The same result is also obtained for the e¤ects of ICT and mass media on economic inequality,. However, ICT reveals … itself inequal- ity increasing for the developing country sample but inequality decreasing for the entire sample. Finally …
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