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Does regulation trade-off quality against inequality? : The case of German architects and construction engineers

Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Strohmaier, Kristina - 2018

regulation affects income inequality and service quality. Using individual-level data from the German microcensus for the years … increase in inequality is associated with a deterioration of service quality. The reform reduced average scores of a peer …

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Housing inequality and how fiscal policy shapes it : evidence from Belgian real estate

Domènech-Arumì, Gerard; Gobbi, Paula E.; Magerman, Glenn - International Research Conference on Household … - 2022

We use detailed information on all real estate stock and transactions since 2006 to study housing inequality in Belgium … then estimate inequality in value or space at different levels of aggregation - from the federal to the local neighborhood … level. Overall inequality is relatively low (Gini of 0.25), but significant heterogeneity exists across and within …

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Mapping stratification : the industry-occupation space reveals the network structure of inequality

Hartmann, Dominik; Jara-Figueroa, Cristian; Kaltenberg, Mary - 2019

network structure and report their contribution to total income inequality in Brazil. Finally, we quantify the relative …

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Information about Inequality in Early Child Care Reduces Polarization in Policy Preferences

Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024

We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...

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The Gini coefficient and discontinuity

Kristensen, Jens Peter - In: Cogent economics & finance 10 (2022) 1, pp. 1-16

This article reveals a discontinuity in the mapping from a Lorenz curve to the associated cumulative distribution function. The problem is of a mathematical nature-based on an analysis of the transformation between the distribution function of a bound random variable and its Lorenz curve. It...

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Socioeconomic inequality in Viet Nam

Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tarp, Finn - 2024

review of recent research, consideration of how inequality is discussed in legal documents, and an analysis of inequality … using household survey data from Viet Nam. Inequality is widely mentioned in legal documents. As of May 2024, there are 443 … 'social equity'. The term 'gender equality' is mentioned in 6,744 legal documents. Regarding academic studies, most focus on …