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More evidence on income distribution and growth [PDF]

Inequality is often regarded as a necessary evil that has to be tolerated to allow growth, says the author. The view that inequality is necessary for the accumulation of wealth, and contains the seeds of eventual increases in everyone's income, is ...
Clarke, George R. G.
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Food banks in schools in England

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the number and distribution of food banks in schools in England. Drawing on a novel source of nationally representative data, we show that one in five schools operate a food bank. This amounts to over 4000 school‐based food banks across the country.
William Baker, George Leckie, Cathryn Knight   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China [PDF]

Despite prolonged economic growth, poverty has become a more notable and noted feature of Chinese society. The paper examines three phases of development since the foundation of the People's Republic: the central planning era (1949 -1978); the pro-urban ...
Bingqin Li, David Piachaud
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Multilevel analysis of ethnic clustering across local schools: Exploring group dynamics

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines ethnic clustering patterns across English secondary schools from 2010 to 2018 using National Pupil Database data and multilevel modelling. Despite concerns about increased segregation following educational reforms, findings reveal a general decline in ethnic concentration across all groups during this period.
Yiyang Gao
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond the perception of present economic inequality: How people construe past, present and future wealth gaps. [PDF]

PLoS One
Scatolon A, Galdi S, Cervone C, Mannetti L, Maass A.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Sweden's economic inequality gap is widening and worrying. [PDF]

Lancet Reg Health Eur, 2023
The Lancet Regional Health-Europe.
europepmc   +1 more source

Competing concepts of inequality in the globalization debate [PDF]

Differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people have shared in the economic gains from globalization.
Ravallion, Martin
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Teacher‐makers and teacher‐breakers: (Re)defining how status and safety influence trajectories into and away from teaching

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper uses empirical data from a longitudinal qualitative study conducted with aspirant teachers in England to propose (re)definitions of the concepts of ‘status’ and ‘safety’ as a framework with which to understand and improve teacher recruitment.
Emily MacLeod
wiley   +1 more source

Can nighttime lights serve as a proxy for economic inequality at the local administrative unit scale? Evidence from Spain. [PDF]

PLoS One
Pérez-Sindín XS, Wójcik P, Chen TK, Prishchepov AV.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Hard times or good times? Inequalities in the health effects of economic change

, 2010
Mylène Riva, Clare Bambra, Susan Easton, Sarah Curtis   +3 more
openalex   +2 more sources