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Indirect impact of employees’ social capital on their income at Dong Thap Muoi, Long An Province
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
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How income mobility and income growth explain income inequality trends [PDF]
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
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Deconstructing Income and Income Inequality Measures: A Crosswalk from Market Income to Comprehensive Income [PDF]
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
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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
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Social capital, income inequality, and mortality.
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
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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
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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
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Developing Context Awareness Mobile Application for Blood Donation
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
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Income inequality in the United States
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
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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
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