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Income Inequality: Does Corporate Income Inequality Parallel Individual Income Inequality?
Explanations provided to explain the increasing individual income inequality, particularly in the U.S.(Saez (2016)), suggest skills/education-related factors play an important role (De Gregorio and Lee(2002)). Corporate income inequality is also on the rise.
Joseph Faello +4 more
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Four profiles of inequality and tax redistribution in Europe
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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Credit, Income and Inequality [PDF]
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.
Manthos D. Delis +2 more
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In order to identify the impact mechanism between income inequality and carbon emissions and clarify the nonlinear relationship between income inequality and carbon emissions in different degrees, so as to provide theoretical support for government ...
Zhenkai Yang +5 more
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Inequality and income gaps [PDF]
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.
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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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Income inequality and colonialism [PDF]
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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Analyzing the Role of Macroeconomic Instability on Income Inequality in Iran [PDF]
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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Through certainty equivalent consumption (CE) measures, we show that dispersion of current earnings, expenditures, and net worth overstate welfare inequality. This is largely due to the unaccounted value of future earnings, which we call human wealth.
Abbott, Brant, Gallipoli, Giovanni
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Is income inequality fair in Russia? Inequality of opportunity and income inequality [PDF]
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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