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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. …
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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...
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In this paper we compute inequality measures over the distribution of a subjective well-being variable constructed from … inequality in subjective well-being may be a better proxy for the degree of unfairness in a society than income inequality. We … find evidence that inequality in subjective well-being has an inverse-U relationship with per capita GDP, but it is …
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Using new data from the Understanding Society: COVID 19 survey collected in April 2020, we show how the aggregate shock caused by the pandemic affects individuals across the distribution. The survey collects data from existing members of the Under-standing Society panel survey who have been...
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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 …
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accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth is being accompanied by rising inequality. We report on a research … project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the all-India level over three decades up to 2011/12 and contrasts … these with evidence at the level of the village, or the urban block. We further unpack inequality to explore dynamics in …
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This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …
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demonstrate, ineqord can be used for dominance checks as well as for estimation of indices of polarization and inequality. …
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-assessed health status? Has average well-being increased or well-being inequality decreased? How does the distribution of well …
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distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL … inequality rankings. …
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