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Guardians of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest : Environmental Organizations and Development

Barbosa, Luiz C. - 2016

environmental struggle in the region is linked to Brazil's position in an evolving capitalist world-economy. It is shown how Brazil … as weapons of conservation, through boycotting certain products, while other pro-development groups within Brazil claim … that such organizations threaten Brazil's sovereignty over its own resources …

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The gender gap in pensions in Latin America

Amarante, Verónica; Colacce, Maira; Manzi, Pilar - In: International social security review 70 (2017) 2, pp. 57-85

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Inequality and migration: A behavioral link

Stark, Oded - 2005

We provide an analytical-behavioral explanation for the observed positive relationship between income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, and the incentive to migrate. We show that a higher total relative deprivation of a population leads to a stronger incentive to engage in...

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Status aspirations, wealth inequality, and economic growth

Stark, Oded - 2005

This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual's want of social status. For a given level of a population's wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure of...

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The emotional timeline of unemployment: Anticipation, reaction, and adaption

von Scheve, Christian; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013

Unemployment continues to be one of the major challenges in industrialized societies. Aside from its economic dimensions and societal repercussions, questions concerning the individual experience of unemployment have recently attracted increasing attention. Although many studies have documented...

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The Emotional Timeline of Unemployment: Anticipation, Reaction, and Adaptation

von Scheve, Christian; Esche, Frederike; Schupp, Jürgen - 2013

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Status Aspirations, Wealth Inequality, and Economic Growth

Stark, Oded - 2005

This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual's want of social status. For a given level of a population?s wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure of...

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Are the Upwardly-Mobile More Left-Wing?

Clark, Andrew E.; Cotofan, Maria - 2023

It is well-known that the wealthier are more likely to have Right-leaning political preferences. We here in addition consider the role of the individual's starting position, and in particular their upward social mobility relative to their parents. In 18 waves of UK panel data, both own and...

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Tributação do capital no Brasil e no mundo

Gobetti, Sérgio Wulff - 2018

the current model of income taxation in Brazil are undergoing a significant international revision, both as a consequence … (in the form of the total exemption of distributed dividends, as in Brazil) should be removed from the Brazilian tax …

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Status aspirations, wealth inequality, and economic growth

Stark, Oded - 2005

This paper argues that an increase in the inequality of wealth prompts a stronger quest for status that in turn fosters the accumulation of wealth. It proposes a measure for an individual’s want of social status. For a given level of a population’s wealth, the corresponding aggregate measure...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729676