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Inequality and Institutions [PDF]
Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004 This paper presents theory and evidence on the relationship between inequality and institutional quality. We propose a model in which the two dynamically reinforce each other and set out to test this relationship with a broad array of institutional measures.
Alberto Chong, Mark Gradstein
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Digital Shift in Swiss Media Consumption Practices
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2020 Relying on the 2013 and 2016 rounds of individual questionnaires from the Swiss Household Panel (SHP), we use multiple correspondence analysis to map Swiss media consumption practices while making use of the longitudinal character of panel data in an ...
Reveilhac Maud, Morselli Davide
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A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality
, 1996 This article presents a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income. The authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile groups' income shares.
Klaus Deininger, L. Squire
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2000 Abstract The deteriorating position ofless-qualified workers has been a growing cause for concern in many OECD countries in the 1980s and 1990s. As well as contributing directly to rising inequality, it compounds the difficulties faced by workers already disadvantaged in the labour market for reasons of age, gender, or race. This chapter
Andrew Glyn, Wiemer Salverda
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An extension and a refinement of van der Corput's inequality
International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences, 2006 van der Corput's inequality is extended and refined by using Euler-Maclaurin formula and other analytic techniques.
Jian Cao, Da-Wei Niu, Feng Qi
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Social capital, income inequality, and mortality.
American Journal of Public Health, 1997 OBJECTIVES Recent studies have demonstrated that income inequality is related to mortality rates. It was hypothesized, in this study, that income inequality is related to reduction in social cohesion and that disinvestment in social capital is in turn ...
I. Kawachi +3 more
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Technical Change, Inequality, and the Labor Market
, 2000 This essay discusses the effect of technical change on wage inequality. I argue that the behavior of wages and returns to schooling indicates that technical change has been skill-biased during the past sixty years.
D. Acemoglu
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AIChE Journal, Volume 69, Issue 2, February 2023., 2023 Abstract This work develops a model predictive control (MPC) scheme using online learning of recurrent neural network (RNN) models for nonlinear systems switched between multiple operating regions following a prescribed switching schedule. Specifically, an RNN model is initially developed offline to model process dynamics using the historical ...
Cheng Hu, Yuan Cao, Zhe Wu
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Heliyon, 2021 Developing countries, particularly Nigeria, continually find it challenging to proactively and actively carry out early-stage surveillance for disease outbreaks due to the lack of quality workforce, a dearth of public health data, and the absence of ...
Tunde Adebisi +4 more
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Working to Reduce Poverty: A National Subsidized Employment Proposal
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2018 Subsidized employment programs that increase labor supply and demand are a proven, underutilized strategy for reducing poverty in the short and long term.
Indivar Dutta-Gupta +4 more
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