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Indirect impact of employees’ social capital on their income at Dong Thap Muoi, Long An Province

open access: yesHo Chi Minh City Open University Journal of Science - Economics and Business Administration, 2021
The study aims to examine the direct impact of social capital on the employment and income of workers. The research model is built based on Granovetter’s theory of the strength of weak-ties relationships, Putnam’s social capital theory, and the results ...
Pham Tan Hoa
doaj   +1 more source

How income mobility and income growth explain income inequality trends [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Proposes a new approach capable of explaining concomitant changes in income inequality and income mobility. Introduction Income mobility and income inequality are two topics that have been the subject of extensive research.
Nicolas Herault
core   +1 more source

Deconstructing Income and Income Inequality Measures: A Crosswalk from Market Income to Comprehensive Income [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican Economic Review, 2013
Recent research on levels and trends in the United States in income inequality vary substantially in how they measure income. We show the sensitivity of alternative income measures in capturing income trends using a unified data set. Focusing solely on market income or including realized taxable capital gains based on IRS tax return data in more ...
Philip Armour   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

open access: yes, 2001
Among countries colonized by European powers during the past 500 years those that were relatively rich in 1500 are now relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for ...
D. Acemoglu   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Social capital, income inequality, and mortality.

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 1997
OBJECTIVES Recent studies have demonstrated that income inequality is related to mortality rates. It was hypothesized, in this study, that income inequality is related to reduction in social cohesion and that disinvestment in social capital is in turn ...
I. Kawachi   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Are cash transfers the panacea to local involvement in humanitarian decision-making? Evidence from World Vision projects in Umzingwane

open access: yesJàmbá, 2019
Cash transfers are increasingly becoming a preferred mode of alleviating human suffering particularly in drought-affected communities in sub-Saharan Africa.
Thabo Ndlovu, Siphathisiwe Ndlovu
doaj   +1 more source

The relationship between level of education and household income in the justification of political violence in the EU. the moderating effect of poverty at the country level

open access: yesPolitical Research Exchange, 2022
Several studies show that political violence justification (PVJ) is associated with unfavourable social and economic characteristics such as poor education, low income, and poverty at the national level.
Gabriel Zohar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Developing Context Awareness Mobile Application for Blood Donation

open access: yesJOIV: International Journal on Informatics Visualization, 2018
The implementation of context awareness in smartphones is getting broader. Through embedded sensors in smartphones, they are able to detect the device’s location and communicate through radio frequency.
Dian Pradhana Sugijarto   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Income inequality in the United States

open access: yes, 2003
This paper presents new homogeneous series on top shares of income and wages from 1913 to 1998 in the United States using individual tax returns data. Top income and wages shares display a U-shaped pattern over the century.
T. Piketty, Emmanuel Saez
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The impact of COVID-19 and strategies for mitigation and suppression in low- and middle-income countries

open access: yesScience, 2020
Global prospects for COVID-19 control Lower-income countries have recognized the potential impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from observing ongoing epidemics.
P. Walker   +48 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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