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Which Inequality? The Inequality of Endowments versus the Inequality of Rewards [PDF]

open access: yesAmerican 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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Global geoparks: Opportunity for developing or “toy” for developed?

open access: yesInternational Journal of Geoheritage and Parks, 2023
Geoparks can provide socio-economical benefits to local communities, but their relative importance to developed and developing countries is yet to be fully realized.
Dmitry A. Ruban   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Household Income Relationship With Health Services Utilization and Healthcare Expenditures in People Aged 75 Years or Older in Japan: A Population-Based Study Using Medical and Long-term Care Insurance Claims Data

open access: yesJournal of Epidemiology, 2019
Background: This study aimed to determine whether there are disparities in healthcare services utilization according to household income among people aged 75 years or older in Japan.
Shota Hamada   +8 more
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Complaints and inequality [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Choice and Welfare, 2004
The authors move beyond the Temkin suggestion [see \textit{L. S. Temkin}, Inequality, Oxford Ethics Ser., Oxford University Press, Oxford (1993)] about the nature of complaints and the way in which they may be aggregated in order to provide a rigorous analysis of a tape of inequality index and inequality literature.
Frank A. Cowell, Udo Ebert
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Disposable Black excellence: A book review of Sekile M. Nzinga’s Lean semesters: How Higher Education Reproduces Inequity

open access: yesThe Professional Educator, 2022
Although Black women’s graduate degree attainment has nearly doubled since 2000, Sekile M. Nzinga’s Lean Semesters provides a complex picture into this social reality in academia, with the central argument that American higher education operates as a ...
Paris Wicker
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Employment Inequalities [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN 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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An inequality of Schur and an inequality of Newton [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings 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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Soffer’s inequality [PDF]

open access: yesPhysical 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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Nutritional Status of Under-5 Children in Migrant Laborer Settlements of Ernakulam District, Kerala, Southern India – A Mixed Method Study

open access: yesIndian Journal of Community Medicine
Background: To assess the nutritional status of children under 5 years of age in migrant laborer settlements and their utilization of Integrated Child Development Scheme services in Ernakulam district, Kerala.
Renjini B. Ambika   +4 more
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Inequity in awareness and utilization of adolescent reproductive and sexual health services in union territory, Chandigarh, North India

open access: yesIndian Journal of Public Health, 2015
Background: Adolescents are a heterogeneous, vulnerable, and sexually active group. Geographical and educational health disparities exist among urban, rural, and slum adolescents and among out-of-school and school-going adolescents, respectively ...
Madhu Gupta   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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