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capital in advanced economies. It synthesizes empirical evidence on worker displacement, productivity, and income inequality …
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social preferences transmitted by ideology. We introduce inequality-averse and inefficiency-averse agents and analyze their …
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Correlations between the earnings of siblings reflect shared family and community background, but evidence is mixed on the relative magnitudes of these influences. We estimate long run earnings correlations between brothers, school mates and teenage neighbors jointly in a unified framework....
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the population, and so economic growth. To our knowledge, this is the only possibility for the inequality to be "bought …
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This paper proposes a stylised model to derive the effect of a sizeable middle class on average educational outcomes. Under reasonable assumptions, the model predicts that the spending share on education increases if the middle class becomes larger such that the size of the middle class has a...
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This paper assesses regional inequality in contemporary urban China by predicting earningss for individual workers in … double, interpersonal inequality would decline by 40-50% and inter-provincial inequality would vanish. In all years …
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Abstract: We study the impact of unjust inequality on social trust and trustworthiness, and its separate effect on the … economic inequality on social interactions. Probing the boundaries of this effect, we document that this erosion of social … the view that higher status or wealth leads to an erosion of pro-social attitudes: the successful are always more generous …
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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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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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network structure and report their contribution to total income inequality in Brazil. Finally, we quantify the relative …
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