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ideological traits; (c) subjective perceptions of the relative importance of the main determinants of income differences (luck …
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capture different aspects of people's opportunity sets, for which observed income may be a poor proxy. One implication is that … the cross-country literature on income inequality and growth may have been barking up the wrong tree, and that alternative …
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In a simple model where skills may differ among agents, we propose to giv e them an equal right to the resources, interpreted as including both the technological possibilities and the skill profile. An equal right guarantees to each agent a minimal welfare level which depends only on her...
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data we construct estimates of shares of top income groups. The paper shows how the proportion of income earned by the very … clearly how the major equalization from the mid 1960s to the mid 1990s has been reversed, taking the shares of top income … cent income share in Finland after the mid 1990s is in an unprecedented increase in the fraction of capital income which is …
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It is well known that income and health are positively associated. Much less is known about the strength of this … by government transfers versus market transfers on changes in income-related health inequality (IRHI) in Europe. Using … European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) panel data for 7 EU countries from 2004 to 2013, we decompose …
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income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals …. Identification comes from random variation in resource productivity and in information on income and its causal effect. We gather … maximisation objective of economic evaluation. Aversion to health inequality is even stronger when it is related to income. However …
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income-related and income-caused health inequality. Participants allocate resources to determine health of individuals …. Identification comes from random variation in resource productivity and in information on income and its causal effect. We gather … maximisation objective of economic evaluation. Aversion to health inequality is even stronger when it is related to income. However …
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This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...
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This report has two main objectives. The first is to outline the development of the methodology for the measurement of economic security in the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and to provide updated estimates of the Index of Economic Security over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed...
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