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Comparing income-related inequality on health service utilisation between older rural-to-urban migrant workers and older rural residents in China: a cross-sectional study

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives This study quantifies income-related inequalities in health service utilisation of older rural-to-urban migrant workers, by comparison with older rural residents, and identify with factors giving rise to the inequalities.Setting Nationally ...
Hongmei Liu, Dan li, Yunmiao Ma, Jinjuan Yang, Jia Jiang   +4 more
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Human Rights Violations and Violent Internal Conflict

Social Sciences, 2019
This research project uses econometric methods and comparative, cross-national data to see whether violations of human rights increase the likelihood of the onset or escalation of violent protest, terrorism and/or civil war.
David Cingranelli, Skip Mark, Mark Gibney, Peter Haschke, Reed Wood, Daniel Arnon   +5 more
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Crisis Prevention: Tackling Horizontal Inequalities [PDF]

Oxford Development Studies, 2000
This paper analyses the economic and social causes of conflict, drawing conclusions for conflict prevention. Civil wars normally occur when groups mobilize against each other, on the basis of some cultural characteristic like ethnicity or religion. It is suggested that horizontal inequalities, i.e.
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Three decades of research on innovation and inequality: Causal scenarios, explanatory factors and suggestions

Prometheus, 2022
Prompted by rising income inequality (in short, inequality) in advanced economies, a rapidly growing number of studies across various fields and disciplines of social science have, since the 1990s, sought to find out how innovation (as the main engine of
Thanos Fragkandreas
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An economy-related equity analysis of health service utilization by women in economically underdeveloped regions of western China

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2017
Background The Chinese government has long been committed to eliminating the inequality in the utilization of health services; however, it still lacks an analysis or measurement of the economy-related inequality in the utilization of women’s health ...
Yuyan Qian, Zhongliang Zhou, Ju’e Yan, Jianmin Gao, Yuping Wang, Xiaowei Yang, Yongjian Xu, Yanli Li   +7 more
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Income-related inequities of adult obesity and central obesity in China: evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey 1997–2011

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives The aim of this study was to analyse the status regarding inequities in adult obesity and central obesity in China. Thus, income-related inequality for both diseases and the underlying factors were examined.Methods and design The China Health ...
Dan Cao, Yafei Si, Zhongliang Zhou, Yu Zhang, Liang Du, Ling Zhou, Xuexue Zhu   +6 more
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Unequal carbon tax impacts on 38 million German households: assessing spatial and socio-economic hotspots

Environmental Research: Climate, 2023
Carbon pricing is a core climate policy in many countries. However, the distribution of impacts is highly unequal across income brackets, but also across household types and regions.
Johannes Többen, Peter-Paul Pichler, Ingram S Jaccard, Kurt Kratena, Daniel Moran, Heran Zheng, Helga Weisz   +6 more
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Who Deserves To Be Supported? Analysing Attitudes Towards Horizontal Redistribution in Nigeria

Social Inclusion
Despite the widespread recognition of the risk that group‐based inequalities, or so‐called horizontal inequalities (HIs), pose for the political stability and social cohesion of multi‐ethnic societies, extremely little research has been conducted on how ...
Arnim Langer, Lucas Leopold, Bart Meuleman   +2 more
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Occupational Segregation Based on Gender and Wage Inequality by Education, Age and Mobility (South Sumatra, Indonesia)

Модернизация, инновация, развитие, 2021
Purpose: this study measures gender segregation by occupations and wage inequality based on overall segregation, vertical segregation, and horizontal segregation in terms of labour supply, namely differences in wages, hours of work, age, level of ...
Arika Kurniawan, А. Azwardi, А. Yunisvita   +2 more
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Macro Adjustment Policies and Horizontal Inequalities [PDF]

, 2008
While there has been a considerable amount of analysis on the impact of structural adjustment policies on poverty and inequality among individuals (or what we define here as vertical inequality – VI), there has been almost none into the impact of structural adjustment on inequality between culturally defined groups, or horizontal inequality (HI ...
Langer, A, Stewart, F
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