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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.
Ali Khashan +3 more
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Is income inequality fair in Russia? Inequality of opportunity and income inequality [PDF]
Applied Econometrics, 2020 n this paper we estimate the contribution of inequality of opportunity to income inequality in Russia. We apply the parametric and nonparametric methods to the national representative survey «Man, family, society» carried out by the RANEPA in 2013. We conclude that the contribution of inequality of opportunity is 23–25% for labor incomes and 16–19% for
M. Kartseva, P. Kuznetsova
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Pensioner Income Inequality [PDF]
Fiscal Studies, 1995 One-and-a-half million pensioners are dependent on the minimum means-tested benefit, income support. But the numbers on income support have barely changed in two decades despite substantial increases in its value and that of its precursor, supplementary benefit. At least another 2 million receive means-tested housing benefit or council tax benefit.
Paul Johnson, Gary Stears
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Income inequality in the context of economic cycles
Business: Theory and Practice, 2012 Theoretical and practical issues of income inequality are analysed in the article. The concept of economic inequality as well as literature analysis along with principal causes and measures of income inequality are presented in the article.
Rasa Zabarauskaitė, Inga Blažienė
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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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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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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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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 Inequality and Saving [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 AbstractOver the last three decades, the average income for the bottom half of the US distribution increased by 8% while their average saving rate decreased by 8 percentage points. Over the same period, the US experienced a substantial increase in inequality and a continuous decrease in the aggregate saving rate.
Alvarez-Cuadrado, Francisco +1 more
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