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Caste and Wealth Inequality in India [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009 In this paper, we conduct the novel exercise of analyzing the relationship between overall wealth inequality and caste divisions in India using nationally representative surveys on household wealth conducted during 1991-92 and 2002-03. According to our findings, the groups in India that are generally considered disadvantaged (known as Scheduled Castes ...
Ajit Zacharias, Vamsi Vakulabharanam
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The association between childhood exposure to local wealth inequality and intergenerational income mobility in the United States [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsPrevious research has documented that income inequality is negatively associated with intergenerational income mobility. Beyond income, wealth is also distributed unequally.
Manuel Schechtl
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Monetary policy effect on income and wealth inequality mechanism. [PDF]
PLoS ONESince the 1990s, global income and wealth inequality has increased significantly, especially in developing countries, where the imbalance in wealth distribution has become increasingly prominent.
Zheng Wang, Yufei Chen, Wenjing Sun
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Job Mobility and Wealth Inequality [PDF]
Computational Economics, 2020 AbstractThe extent to which employees change jobs, known as the job mobility rate, has been steadily declining in the US for decades. This decline is understood to have a negative impact on both productivity and wages, and econometric studies fail to support any single cause brought forward.
J. M. Applegate, Marco A. Janssen
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Will wealth inequality decrease happiness?—Empirical evidence from China [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionThis article delves into the broad social and economic impacts of wealth inequality, specifically focusing on its effects on happiness, as analyzed using micro survey data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS).MethodsThis article employs
Jingtao Wang
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Correlates of Acceptance of Wealth Inequality: A Moderated Mediation Model [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Wealth inequality is a prevalent social issue. The present study focuses on acceptance of wealth inequality, and considers personal income, perceived upward mobility, and future time perspective as its antecedents, and collective action intention as its ...
Grand H.-L. Cheng +2 more
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Wealth inequality and dynamic stability [PDF]
Journal of Economic Theory, 2005 In this paper we explore the link between wealth inequality and stability in a two-sector neoclassical growth model with heterogeneous agents. The stability of the steady state depends on the various parameters of the model and in particular on individual preferences.
Ghiglino, Christian
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Wealth and wealth inequality in adult HIV prevalence
Journal of Global Health Reports, 2021 # Background Studies investigating a correlation between economic status of household (wealth or income) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevalence have shown relationships ranging from insignificant to strong-positive.
Gary Gaumer +3 more
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Modeling the Origin and Possible Control of the Wealth Inequality Surge. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 The rapid increase of wealth inequality in the past few decades is a most disturbing social and economic issue of our time. In order to control, and even reverse that surge, its origin and underlying mechanisms should be revealed.
Yonatan Berman +2 more
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The U.S. Wealth Distribution: Off the Charts
Socius, 2022 Although extreme and rising levels of U.S. wealth inequality have generated much public and scientific interest, building intuition on the shape and scale of today’s wealth distribution remains difficult. Prior research tends to conceptualize and measure
Fabian T. Pfeffer, Asher Dvir-Djerassi
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