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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty

Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018

debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se … fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … empirical applications provide important new insights on the development of unfair inequality both over time (in the US) and …

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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...

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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020

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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies

Thoresen, Thor Olav - 1995

substantial decrease in inequality among households with preschoolers, since the child care subsidies very much favour well …

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Malthusian stagnation is efficient

Córdoba Muñoz, Juan C.; Liu, Xiying - In: Theoretical Economics 17 (2022) 1, pp. 415-460

"Malthusian stagnation" result. Furthermore, optimal allocations exhibit inequality, differential fertility, random consumption …

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Malthusian stagnation is efficient

Córdoba Muñoz, Juan C.; Liu, Xiying - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 17 (2022) 1, pp. 415-460

"Malthusian stagnation" result. Furthermore, optimal allocations exhibit inequality, differential fertility, random consumption …

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Child Survival, Poverty and Policy Options from DHS Surveys in Kenya: 1993-2003

Kabubo-Mariara, Jane; Karienyeh, Margaret M.; Mwangi, … - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2008

This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty in Kenya. We carry out poverty and inequality comparisons … measure of wellbeing. Inequality analysis suggests that there is less mortality inequality among children facing mortality …

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Disadvantaged among Australian young mothers

Bradbury, Bruce - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 2, pp. 147-171

Young mothers are one of the most disadvantaged groups in Australian society. This paper documents this disadvantage and shows how the relative disadvantage of young mothers has increased over time. Almost all teenage mothers and most mothers in their early 20s are reliant upon income support...

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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies

Thoresen, Thor Olav - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995

substantial decrease in inequality among households with preschoolers, since the child care subsidies very much favour well …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980752

Real wages and the family: Adjusting real wages to changing demography in pre-modern England

Schneider, Eric B. - In: Explorations in Economic History 50 (2013) 1, pp. 99-115

This paper uses demographic data drawn from Wrigley et al.'s (1997) family reconstitutions of 26 English parishes to adjust Allen's (2001) real wages to the changing demography of early modern England. Using parity progression ratios (a fertility measure) and age specific mortality for children...

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