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The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously
Grimes, Arthur; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Tranquilli, Florencia - 2020
We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than … described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz (Economic Inquiry, 2018). Using inequality indices … inequality, matters for individual SWL outcomes; so too does whether we look upwards or downwards at the (skewed) distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322491
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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality
Britto, Diogo G. C.; Fonseca, Alexandre; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470263
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Intergenerational Mobility in the Land of Inequality
Britto, Diogo; Fonseca, Alexandre; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022
We provide the first estimates of intergenerational income mobility for a developing country, namely Brazil. We measure formal income from tax and employment registries, and we train machine learning models on census and survey data to predict informal income. The data reveal a much higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470374
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Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do, Minh; … - 2023
and 2020 and other data sources, we find within-province inequality to be much larger than between-province inequality …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013532883
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Rapid Economic Growth but Rising Poverty Segregation: Will Vietnam Meet the SDGs for Equitable Development?
Dang, Hai-Anh; Dhongde, Shatakshee; Do, Minh N.N.; … - 2023
and 2020 and other data sources, we find within-province inequality to be much larger than between-province inequality …. Furthermore, this inequality gap is rising over time. Despite the country's fast poverty reduction, the poor were increasingly … inequality levels. We also find greater inequality to have negative impact on economic growth and poverty reduction. Our results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296660
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Decomposing lifetime-earnings differences between white, black, and hispanic families
Bodenschatz, Hope; Daniels, Gerald Eric; Thompson, … - 2023
This paper explores disparities between White, Black, and Hispanic families using a measure of lifetime earnings developed by Jacobs et al. (2022) for the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF). Lifetime earnings are a particularly important measure of well-being, with relevance for wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014480403
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Multidimensional affluence in income and wealth in the eurozone: A cross country comparison using the HFCS
Kontbay-Busun, Sine; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010460699
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Inequality and poverty in Greece: Changes in times of crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007-2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011721299
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Perceived Social Position and Income Inequality: Do They Move Together? Evidence from Europe and the United States
Ricci, Chiara Assunta - 2016
investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725458
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Inequality and Poverty in Greece: Changes in Times of Crisis
Andriopoulou, Eirini; Karakitsios, Alexandros; … - 2017
effects of the crisis on the level and the structure of aggregate inequality and poverty using the data of EU-SILC for the … period 2007–2014. The results show that inequality rose but the magnitude of the change varies across indices. The recorded … contribution of disparities between educational groups to aggregate inequality declined while that of disparities between socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744718