relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

To-date the macroeconomic conditions-mortality literature on income-related inequality in mortality has relied on … highlight the importance of: i) measurement of relative versus absolute inequality; ii) measurement of inequality by population …-level statistics of inequality (concentration indices) versus subgroup analysis; iii) measurement of short versus long-term income. We …

relationship between inequality of entitlements, mortality risk, and the size of redistribution in a stylized social security …

The main challenge in studying economic inequality is limited data availability, which is particularly problematic in … developing countries. We construct a measure of economic inequality for 234 countries and territories from 1992 to 2013 using … traditional inequality measures based on income data. Indeed, we obtain a measure that is significantly correlated with cross …

the recent rise in life expectancy inequality in the US and the entire change in Denmark. Our analysis shows that the … in life expectancy inequality. Rather, the dramatic 50% reduction in cardiovascular deaths, which benefited both rich and …