Nation-level Gender Inequality and Couples' Income Arrangements
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2019 Using data from the 2012 International Social Survey Program (n = 8,269), this study investigated how couples integrate and manage their income across 20 countries with varying degrees of gender inequality. Couples were more likely to report that one person managed the shared pot of money in countries with high gender inequality compared with couples ...
Cohen, Philip, Pepin, Joanna
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HABITS AND THE SAVINGS-GROWTH RELATIONSHIP Why US Personal Savings Rates Are At Historic Lows [PDF]
In this paper we show that the solution to the standard consumer maximisation problem which is augmented by habit-persistence can imply a positive and linear relationship between changes in the level of savings and changes in present income. We show that
Petar D. Vujanovic
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Challenges to sustainable rural development in Russia: social issues and regional divergences
Apstract: Applied Studies in Agribusiness and Commerce, 2016 Paper aims at investigation of contemporary approaches to sustainable rural development in Russia. It includes the overview of current experiences in rural development, analysis of major economic and social indicators of rural areas in comparison with ...
Olga Lisova +2 more
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Level of income and income distribution in mid-18th century France, according to Francois Quesnay [PDF]
The paper uses the data from Francois Quesnay's writings to derive a social table for pre-revolutionary France, estimate country's mean income and income distribution.
Milanovic, Branko
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Do Economic Inequalities Harm Health? Evidence from Europe [PDF]
, 2007 Until recently, there has been a consensus among empirical health economists that there is an association between income inequality and individual health, in line with Wilkinson’s (1992) idea that the psychosocial effects of the former are detrimental to
Etienne, Jean-Michel +2 more
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Marginal Costs of Income Redistribution at the State Level [PDF]
Previous analyses of the cost of redistribution by a unitary government have focussed on the welfare losses of distorted labor supply choices. On the other hand, the analysis of redistribution b,y local qovernments in a federal system has emphasized the ...
William R. Johnson
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The Spatial Distribution of Labour Force Participation and Market Earnings at the Sub-National Level in Ireland [PDF]
The main aim of this paper is to provide a spatial modelling framework for labour force participation and income estimation. The development of a household income distribution for Ireland had previously been hampered by the lack of disaggregated data on ...
Cathal O'Donoghue, Karyn Morrissey
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Barely Hanging On: Middle-Class and Uninsured [PDF]
, 2010 Compares state-by-state data on health insurance coverage and the uninsured in 1999/2000 and 2007/08 by income level, insurance type, and availability of employer-sponsored coverage; average employee premiums and contributions for ESI; and median ...
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Hierarchical Needs, Income Comparisons, and Happiness Levels [PDF]
, 2012 The cornerstone of the hierarchical approach is that there are some basic human needs which must be satisfied before nonbasic needs come into the picture. The hierarchical structure of needs implies that the satisfaction of primary needs provides substantial increases to individual happiness compared to the subsequent satisfaction of secondary needs ...
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LEVEL OF INCOME OF POPULATION: THE CURRENT STATE AND PERSPECTIVES [PDF]
, 2012 Zyuzin, V.
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