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Globalization and Income Inequality [PDF]
, 2007 This paper discusses the distributive consequences of trade flows in developing countries (DCs). On the theoretical side, we argue that the interplays between international openness and technology adoption may constitute an important mechanism leading to a possible increase of income differentials in the liberalizing DCs, trough skill enhancing trade ...
Meschi, Elena, Vivarelli, Marco
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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