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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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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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Living wages across the Pacific Rim: A localised replication study from China
Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2020 Theoretically, a living wage is a threshold that, once crossed, may transform qualities of work life, including from wage injustice to justice, organizational disengagement to commitment, and life dissatisfaction to satisfaction. Initial studies from New
Yuting Hu, Stuart C. Carr
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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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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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Competing Concepts of Inequality in the Globalization Debate [PDF]
, 2004 Differing value judgments in measuring inequality underlie the conflicting factual claims about how much poor people have shared in the economic gains from globalization. Opponents in the debate differ in the extent
Ravallion, Martin
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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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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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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, 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.
Andrew Glyn, Wiemer Salverda
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