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HRB Open Research, 2022 Background: Income inequality is an important indicator of socioeconomic position which is a determinant of social, psychological, and physical health outcomes from childhood to adulthood.
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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 ...
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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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Income inequality is cyclical [PDF]
Nature, 2016 Periodic rises and falls in the gap between the rich and poor over centuries indicate that inequality will not grow forever, argues Branko Milanovic.
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Neighborhood Income Inequality [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006 This paper offers a descriptive empirical analysis of the geographic pattern of income inequality within a sample of 359 US metropolitan areas between 1980 and 2000. Specifically, we decompose the variance of metropolitan area-level household income into two parts: one associated with the degree of variation among household incomes within neighborhoods
Christopher H. Wheeler +1 more
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Capitalist Systems and Income Inequality [PDF]
Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020 The paper investigates the relationship betweencapitalism systems and their levels of income andcompositional inequality (how the composition ofincome between capital and labor varies along incomedistribution). Capitalism may be seen to range betweenClassical Capitalism, where the rich have only capitalincome, and the rest have only labor income ...
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THE EFFECT OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE ON INCOME INEQUALITY: A MULTIDIMENSIONAL PANEL DATA ANALYSIS
Mehmet Akif Ersoy Üniversitesi İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi Dergisi, 2022 Reducing income inequality is one of the primary objectives of economic policies. Even if macroeconomic indicators such as economic growth, foreign trade, inflation, employment have improved in certain periods, regardless of the economic model applied ...
Abdullah Takım, Sena Gültekin
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Income Inequalities in Perspective [PDF]
Development, 2015 Income and wealth inequalities in most countries – in the West, the former communist economies and in the developing world –have been on the rise in the last three decades with some notable exceptions. Inequalities in the nineteenth century were much higher than before the Industrial Revolution.
Kwame Sundaram, Jomo, Popov, Vladimir
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PLoS ONEBased on the data of China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this paper decomposed Chinese residents' income into labor income and capital income by income source, and measured the income inequality and income composition inequality of Chinese residents ...
Xunhua Tu, Jie Yan, Jing Zheng
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Analysis of Empirical Research on the Factors Influencing the Change of Income Inequality
Socialiniai Tyrimai, 2019 Until the last major recession, there was an approach in macroeconomics that income distribution was not significant for macroeconomic processes. However, the recent major recession has prompted policymakers and economists to take into account the ...
Laura Diliuvienė +1 more
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