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Working from home and income inequality: risks of a ‘new normal’ with COVID-19
Journal of Population Economics, 2020 In the current context of the COVID-19 pandemic, working from home (WFH) became of great importance for a large share of employees since it represents the only option to both continue working and minimise the risk of virus exposure. Uncertainty about the
Luca Bonacini +2 more
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Income inequality and colonialism [PDF]
European Economic Review, 2007 This paper proposes that colonialism is a major explanation behind today's differences in income inequality across countries. We argue that income inequality has been higher in the colonies where the percentage of European settlers to total population was higher, as long as Europeans remained a minority.
Angeles Soliz, Luis, Angeles, Luis
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A new approach to social inequality: inequality of income and wealth in South Korea
The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2020 This paper attempts to provide a new approach to social inequality, focusing on income and wealth inequality and the relationship between income inequality and wealth inequality.
Kwang-Yeong Shin
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Review of Income and Wealth, 2020 The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it introduces a novel inequality concept, named income composition inequality. Second, it constructs an indicator for its measurement. This paper argues that the study of income composition inequality across the income distribution allows for (i) novel political economy analysis of the evolution of economic ...
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality +1 more
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Reconciling Consumption Inequality with Income Inequality [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 The rise in within-group consumption inequality in response to the increase in within-group income inequality over the last three decades in the U.S. is puzzling to expected-utility-based incomplete market models. The two-sided lack of commitment models exhibit too little consumption inequality while the standard incomplete markets models tend to ...
Christian A. Stoltenberg +2 more
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Tourism and income inequality [PDF]
Journal of Business and Socio-Economic Development, 2022 Purpose – Tourism has grown to be one of the world's largest and fastest-growing economic industries. Tourism development is viewed as a tool to improve income distribution as it allows people at the bottom of the pyramid to get involved in the industry.
Yogeeswari Subramaniam +2 more
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An evaluation of common explanations for the impact of income inequality on life satisfaction [PDF]
, 2018 This study explains how income inequality affects life satisfaction in Europe. Although research about the impact of income inequality on life satisfaction is inconclusive, authors suggest several reasons for its potential impact.
Schalembier, Benjamin
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Four profiles of inequality and tax redistribution in Europe
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020 The rise of economic inequality in the past few decades is one of the most relevant phenomena in western countries recent history. Market income distribution pushed inequality up and challenged welfare state capacity to deal with economic gaps.
Frederico Cantante
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Analyzing the Role of Macroeconomic Instability on Income Inequality in Iran [PDF]
پژوهشهای اقتصادی, 2021 Since income inequality can affect individuals’ lives economically, socially, and environmentally, analyzing variables influencing income inequality is of great importance.
Shahryar Zaroki +2 more
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Entrepreneurship and income inequality
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2018 Abstract Entrepreneurship research highlights entrepreneurship as a simultaneous source of enhanced income mobility for some but a potential source of poverty for others. Research on inequality has furthered new types of models to decompose and problematize various sources of income inequality, but attention to entrepreneurship as an increasingly ...
Daniel Halvarsson +2 more
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