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Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jorgen Heibo - 2013

This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...

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A distributional analysis of social group inequality in rural India

Azam, Mehtabul - 2009

This paper examines the differences in welfare, as measured by per capita expenditure (PCE), between social groups in rural India across the entire welfare distribution. The paper establishes that the disadvantage suffered by two historically disadvantaged groups - Scheduled Castes (SCs) and...

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Individual notions of distributive justice and relative economic status

Barr, Abigail; Burns, Justine; Miller, Luis; Shaw, Ingrid - 2011

We present two experiments designed to investigate whether individuals' notions of distributive justice are associated with their relative (within-society) economic status. Each participant played a specially designed four-person dictator game under one of two treatments, under one initial...

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Multidimensional poverty in Colombia, 1997 - 2010

Diaz, Beatriz Yadira; Salazar, Roberto Carlos Angulo; … - 2013

This paper presents the Colombian Multidimensional Poverty Index (CMPI), an initiative of the National Planning Department based on the methodology of Alkire and Foster (2010). The proposed index for Colombia is composed of five dimensions: education of household members; childhood and youth...

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Sectorial shifts and inequality: How to relate macroeconomic events to inequality changes

Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012

This paper presents a way to explore how macroeconomic shifts cause inequality changes. It is based on the backwardness … control over the direct impact on inequality changes caused by macroeconomic changes that affects the relative competitiveness … inequality in a context of capital-skill complementarity and imperfect mobility of workers. The main conclusion of this paper is …

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Inequality of earnings

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

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Inequality decompositions: A reconciliation

Cowell, Frank A.; Fiorio, Carlo V. - 2009

approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches using an analysis of the changing contributions to inequality in …

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Social welfare, inequality and deprivation

Magdalou, Brice; Moyes, Patrick - 2008

inequality by considering the corresponding relative and absolute ethical inequality indices. …

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Trust, welfare states and income equality: What causes what?

Bergh, Andreas; Bjørnskov, Christian - 2013

equal outcomes, while the feedback from inequality to trust is ambiguous. Using a structural equations model estimated on a …. We conclude that while trust facilitates welfare state policies that may reduce net inequality, this decrease in … inequality does not increase trust. …

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Life satisfaction and income inequality

Verme, Paolo - 2010

Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well-being? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in …

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