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Inequality, Resilience of Tax and Welfare System and Human Rights

open access: yes, 2016
European countries are facing an historic moment: they are entering a new era of extraordinary and unexpected changes. The severity of the economic crisis and the humanitarian emergency situation, caused by the abnormal wave of refugees, have put the ...
VILLANI, SALVATORE
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Violent Conflict and Inequality [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction.
Brück, Tilman   +2 more
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Harnessing the Direct and Indirect Effects of Agriculture on Health and Nutrition to Accelerate Human Capital Development in Kenya: Evidence from Household Surveys

open access: yesEconomies
This paper estimates the direct and indirect effects of agriculture on health and nutrition using nationally representative survey data collected by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics in 1994, 1997, 2005 and 2015.
Germano Mwabu, Anthony Wambugu
doaj   +1 more source

Epidemiology of arthritis, chronic back pain, gout, osteoporosis, spondyloarthropathies and rheumatoid arthritis among 1.5 million patients in Australian general practice: NPS MedicineWise MedicineInsight dataset

open access: yesBMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2018
Background Previous estimates for the prevalence of musculoskeletal conditions (MSK) and chronic pain in Australia have been based on self-report. We aimed to determine the prevalence and distribution of arthritis, chronic back pain, gout, osteoporosis ...
David Alejandro González-Chica   +3 more
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Some generalizations of RADO'S inequality

open access: yes, 2011
碩士在本文中,主要以系統化的方式整合文獻資料中與Rado不等式及Popoviciu不等式有相關的不等式。以更簡易的方法(如Jensen不等式和凸函數基本性質)去證明,最後再舉一些例子說明。In this article, mainly in the systematic way to with the Rado''s inequality and Popoviciu''s inequalities are related to inequality.
何振泰; Ho, Chen-Tai
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Do More Open Economies Export Less Diversely in Brazilian Agribusiness?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper asks whether municipalities with a larger export‐to‐revenue ratio display a more concentrated bundle of exported goods in Brazilian agribusiness. Recent advances in export imputation for Brazilian municipalities allow for an analysis of the concentration profile of each municipality and its association with export openness.
Alan Leal, Michelle Marcia Viana Martins
wiley   +1 more source

An entropy inequality

open access: yesQuantum Information and Computation, 2009
Let $S(\rho)=-\Tr (\rho\log\rho)$ be the von Neumann entropy of an $N$-dimensional quantum state $\rho$ and $e_2(\rho)$ the second elementary symmetric polynomial of the eigenvalues of $\rho$. We prove the inequality S(\rho) \;\le \; c(N) \; \sqrt{e_2(\rho)} where $c(N)=\log(N) \, \sqrt{\frac{2N}{N-1}}$.
Meik Hellmund, Armin Uhlmann
openaire   +2 more sources

The Globalization of Inequality

open access: yes, 2015
In The Globalization of Inequality, distinguished economist and policymaker François Bourguignon examines the complex and paradoxical links between a vibrant world economy that has raised the living standard of over half a billion people in emerging ...
Bourguignon, François   +1 more
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What Explains Racial Differences in Farm Succession Planning? Evidence From Decomposition and Counterfactual Analysis

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines racial differences in farm succession planning using survey data from Tennessee farmers. While observed differences between White and Black farmers are small, decomposition and counterfactual analyses show that structural characteristics, particularly farm size, would predict higher succession planning among White farmers ...
Abdelaziz Lawani   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Factorial Survey Analysis Improves Our Understanding of Employer Preferences

open access: yesSwiss Journal of Sociology, 2019
Factorial Survey Analysis (FSA) is an analytical tool that presents respondents with fictional situations (“vignettes”) to be rated or judged. In this paper we study the use of FSA in labour market sociology, with a particular focus on employer-based ...
McDonald Patrick
doaj   +1 more source

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