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Econometrics and Income Inequality [PDF]
Econometrics, 2018 It is well-known that, after decades of non-interest in the theme, economics has experienced a proper surge in inequality research in recent years. [...]
Martin Biewen, Emmanuel Flachaire
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Life satisfaction and income inequality [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010 Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective well‐being? Welfare theories can predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well‐being and empirical research has found evidence of a positive, negative, or non‐significant relation.
Paolo Verme
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Education, Inequality and Income Inequality [PDF]
, 2001 In this paper we propose to measure inequality of educational achievements by constructing a Gini index on educational attainments. We then use the proposed measure to analyse the relationship between inequality in incomes and educational achievements (in terms of both the average attainments and its concentration).
Daniele Checchi
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Inequality and income gaps [PDF]
Working Paper Series, 2006 This paper discusses inequality orderings based explicitly on closing up of income gaps, demonstrating the links between these and other orderings, the classes of functions preserving the orderings and applications showing their usefulness in comparison of economic policies.
Ian Preston
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The Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011 The paper explores different applications of the Shapley value for either inequality or poverty measures. We first investigate the problem of source decomposition of inequality measures, the so-called additive income sources inequality games, based on the Shapley value, introduced by Chantreuil and Trannoy (1999) and Shorrocks (1999).
Arthur Charpentier, Stéphane Mussard
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Income Inequality and Education [PDF]
Sociological Science, 2015 Many commentators have seen the growing gap in earnings and income between those with a college education and those without as a major cause of increasing inequality in the United States and elsewhere.
Richard Breen, Inkwan Chung
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Inflation and income inequality: does the level of income inequality matter?
Applied Economics, 2022 In the recent times of global Covid pandemic, the Federal Reserve has raised the concerns of upsurges in prices. Given the complexity of interaction between inflation and inequality, we examine whether the impact of inflation on inequality differs among distinct levels of income inequality across the US states.
Edmond Berisha +2 more
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Inequality and Top Incomes [PDF]
, 2021 This chapter comprises three main parts. The first part is about data sources, the definitions of income, and the methodologies used to estimate top income shares. Both the standard sources and methods used by the traditional top income studies are described.
Bartels, Charlotte, Waldenström, Daniel
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Credit, Income and Inequality [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020 Analyzing unique data on loan applications by individuals who are majority owners of small firms, we detail how a bank’s credit decisions affect their future income. We use the bank’s cutoff rule, which is based on the applicants’ credit scores, as the discontinuous locus providing exogenous variation in the decision to grant loans.
Del¯es, Manthos D. +2 more
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Globalization and Income Inequality [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007 This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology adoption may constitute an important mechanism leading to a possible increase of income differentials in the liberalizing DCs, trough skill enhancing trade ...
Meschi, Elena, Vivarelli, Marco
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