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Which Inequality? The Inequality of Endowments versus the Inequality of Rewards [PDF]
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2010 We introduce a new distinction between inequality in initial endowments (e.g., ability, inherited wealth) and inequality of what one can obtain as rewards (e.g., prestigious positions, money). We show that, when society allocates resources via tournaments, these two types of inequality have opposing effects on equilibrium behavior and well-being ...
Ed Hopkins, Tatiana Kornienko
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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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An inequality similar to Opial’s inequality [PDF]
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1969 rb 1 b (1) fJ |yy(n) I dx (b ? a)n1 I y(n) 12dx. 2 (He employs (1) to prove uniqueness of the initial value problem for linear differential equations of order n.) Also there are generalizations of Opial's original inequality in other directions. (See, for instance, Calvert [2] and Yang [6].) The purpose of this note is to obtain a sharper version of (1)
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Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2020 This paper investigates trends in Swiss women’s and men’s gender attitudes in the period 2000–2017 using the Swiss Household Panel data. Based on pooled OLS and fixed-effects models, we establish the following for women and men: (1) over this time period,
Bornatici Christina +2 more
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Can policies improve language vitality? The Sámi languages in Sweden and Norway
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionLanguage policies are often aimed at changing language behaviours, yet it is notoriously difficult to assess their effects. This study investigates language use and competence in the Indigenous Sámi populations of Norway and Sweden in light ...
Anika Lloyd-Smith +8 more
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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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More Gender Equality, More Homogamy? A Cohort Comparison in Six European Countries
Swiss Journal of Sociology, 2017 We study whether educational homogamy has increased following the rise of women’s educational attainment and of egalitarian couples in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
Falcon Julie, Joye Dominique
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2005 Most US credit card holders revolve high-interest debt, often combined with substantial (i) asset accumulation by retirement, and (ii) low-rate liquid assets. Hyperbolic discounting can resolve only the former puzzle (Laibson et al., 2003). Bertaut and Haliassos (2002) proposed an 'accountant-shopper'framework for the latter.
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An inequality of Schur and an inequality of Newton [PDF]
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 1969 2 (1.3) Er ? Er-iEr+1 and (1.4) 1r ? Hr-lHr+i. 1 The inequality (1.3) is known as Newton's inequality and is true when a1, a2, * * *, am are real numbers. The inequality (1.4), given by Professor Schur, is true when a1, a2, * * X am are nonnegative reals. In [1], Whiteley has given the following generalizations of (1.3) and (1.4): Let (1.5) El(K) = Xi1,
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2022 Background While a large body of research has documented socioeconomic and migrant inequities in the effective use of healthcare services, the reasons underlying such inequities are yet to be fully understood.
Ivana Paccoud +2 more
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