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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022 Objective: COVID-19 in the US disproportionately affected, and continues to affect, racial/ethnic minorities. Although risky social gatherings for Thanksgiving and Christmas in 2020 contributed substantially to the “winter surge” in cases and deaths, no ...
Tim A. Bruckner +2 more
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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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Climate inequality report 2023 [PDF]
, 2023 The climate crisis has begun to disrupt human societies by severely affecting the very foundations of human livelihood and social organisation. Climate impacts are not equally distributed across the world: on average, low- and middle-income countries ...
Voituriez, Tancrède +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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The High Cost of Gender Inequality in Earnings
, 2018 This first note in the series on the cost of gender inequality focuses on the losses in national wealth due to gender inequality in earnings. There is a substantial literature on the impact of gender inequality on
de la Brière, Bénédicte +1 more
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INEQUALITY AND HAPPINESS [PDF]
Journal of Economic Surveys, 2013 AbstractIn recent years there has been an accumulation of empirical evidence suggesting that individuals dislike inequality. The literature has built upon estimating the degree of this dislike as well as its causes. The use of self‐reported measures of satisfaction or well‐being as a proxy for utility has been one of the empirical strategies used to ...
Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada, Ramos, Xavier
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Tudo que tem valor vira vale: economia e circulação de crédito no contexto da Independência
História Econômica & História de Empresas, 2022 Este artigo busca traçar um panorama do mercado de crédito em vigor na cidade do Rio de Janeiro – a principal praça comercial do Atlântico Sul – durante e logo após o processo de Independência do Brasil.
Clemente Gentil Penna, Rita Almico
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Physical Review D, 1995 Various issues surrounding a recently proposed inequality among twist-two quark distributions in the nucleon are discussed. We provide a rigorous derivation of the inequality in QCD, including radiative corrections and scale dependence. We also give a more heuristic, but more physical derivation, from which we show that a similar inequality does not ...
Goldstein, Gary R. +2 more
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Compensation System and Earnings Inequality
, 2014 We develop a wage-structure determination model in which a firm with incomplete information offers an optimal sequence of contracts for its heterogeneous employees.
Jiang, Lily, Jiang, Lily; Yu, Hsi-Cheng
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Income inequality and subjective well-being: A cross-national study on the conditional effects of individual and national characteristics [PDF]
, 2013 Contains fulltext : 116539.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)In this study we raise the question how a nation’s income inequality affects subjective well-being.
Kraaykamp, G.L.M. +7 more
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