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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 ...
Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality +2 more
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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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Quantitative Economics, 2022 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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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.
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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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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).
Charpentier, Arthur, Mussard, Stéphane
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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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Economies, 2021 The paper explored the problem of income inequality in Russia in the context of the sustainable development of Russia. The research starts from the historical analysis of income inequality dynamics in Russia.
Mikhail Lvovitch Dorofeev
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