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Is Islam really a development blockade? 12 predictors of development, including membership in the Organization of Islamic Conference, and their influence on 14 indicators of develo...

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence exists on the compatibility of “Muslim culture” with positive patterns of political, social, and ecological development in the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and...

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The decomposition of well-being categories: An application to Germany

Faik, Jurgen; Fachinger, Uwe - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

In the paper, a combined approach is used to test for inequality differences of several well-being categories for a … number of groups of persons. Hereby, total inequality is decomposed into within- and into between-group/category inequality … (via a normalised coefficient of variation as the used inequality indicator). The decompositions are categorised into those …

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Ingreso y desigualdad: ¿Cómo afectan a la felicidad en América Latina?

Gerstenblüth, Mariana; Melgar, Natalia; Rossi, Máximo - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2010

Latin America is known as the most unequal region in the world. However, the effect of income inequality on people … between the self-placement in the income scale and inequality is negatively related to happiness. Hence, individuals with … higher income levels will be happier in countries where inequality is lower. …

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Poverty persistence and poverty dynamics

Biewen, Martin - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) November, pp. 1-10

A considerable part of the poverty that is measured in a single period is transitory rather than persistent. In most countries, only a portion of people who are currently poor are persistently poor. People who are persistently poor or who cycle into and out of poverty should be the main focus of...

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Income Inequality and Poverty in Front of and during the Economic Crisis: An Empirical Investigation for Germany 2002-2010

Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis - in 2009 - inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …

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Impacts of an Ageing Society on Macroeconomics and Income Inequality: The Case of Germany since the 1980s

Faik, Jürgen - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012

macroeconomics and income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the … correlated with income inequality, and regarding economic growth a (slightly) concave effect upon income inequality has been …

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Impacts of an Ageing Society on Macroeconomics and Income Inequality – The Case of Germany since the 1980s

Faik, Jürgen - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

income inequality on the other hand. For this purpose, several estimation equations are derived by econometric methods (on …, these connections are used to produce a nexus between German income inequality and the stated macroeconomic variables … unemployment rates. While the measured income inequality is upwards directly (exogenously) driven by demographic ageing, the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163077

Income inequality and poverty in front of and during the economic crisis - An empirical investigation for Germany 2002-2010

Faik, Jürgen - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis – in 2009 – inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163083

Tectonic shifts in the structures of international inequality?

TAUSCH, Arno - EconWPA - 2005

penetration. Keywords: cross-section models, income distribution, inequality, international economic order, economic welfare …

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A Decade of Tax and Benefit Reforms in Sweden -Effects on Labour Supply, Welfare and Inequality.

Aronsson, T.; Palme, M. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 1994

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