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WEALTH INEQUALITY AND INCOME INEQUALITY

Proceedings of the 34th International Academic Conference, Florence, 2017
Wealth inequality and the contribution of wealth to households' well-being have received an increasing attention during the last years. This study examines the patterns of wealth inequality and the correspondence between the distributions of income and wealth.
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Multidimensional Wealth Inequality: A Hybrid Approach toward Distributional National Accounts in Europe [PDF]

, 2020
Distributional National Accounts (DINA) link macroeconomic aggregates with distributional information enabling a better understanding of distributional implications of macroeconomic developments and facilitate cross-country comparisons of inequality ...
Waltl, Sofie R.
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Between public service and market: Portraying the bifront university in a platformized world

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the international debate on the changes affecting recruitment and orientation processes toward higher education. Based on qualitative research involving 19 Italian public universities, the study analyses the transformations in communication, recruitment and orientation activities within platformization and increasing ...
Marco Pitzalis, Ciro Cangiano, Alessandro Lovari   +2 more
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GINI DP 20: Does Income Inequality Negatively Affect General Trust? Examining three potential problems with the inequality-trust hypothesis [PDF]

Many studies on the consequences of income inequality find that where inequality is high, trust is low. There are, however, reasons to examine the relation between inequality and trust more closely. First, previous research does not differentiate between
Bram Lancee, Sander Steijn
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The impact of the current student loans regime on Muslim student engagement and retention in English higher education

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is much interest in the potential for an alternative funding system for higher education students in England to support the spiritual and worldly needs of British Muslim students. At the heart of this issue lies a tension over whether the student financing system in English HE is haram, or forbidden under Islamic (Shari'ah) law, because ...
Richard Hall, Yusraa Maryam, Sumeya Loonat   +2 more
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Emergence of Wealth Inequality in China: Evidence from Rural Household Survey, 1986 -2000

East Asian Economic Review, 2003
Based on relatively recent household survey data (1986 2000) in rural China, this paper analyzes the composition and inequality in non-land wealth. We first document the evolution of rural households wealth during the sample period. Our results show that
Kyeongwon Yoo
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Growth mindset is positively associated with mathematics attainment in Scotland—But socioeconomic status plays a greater role

British Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract There is currently a gap in knowledge around pupils' growth mindset (GM) and attainment in Scotland, particularly in relation to Socioeconomic Status (SES). This study offers insights on the relevance of growth mindset in Scotland for attainment in mathematics by drawing on large‐scale data from the OECD's Programme for International Student ...
Catherine Reid, Ellen Boeren
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Household Wealth Trends in the United States, 1962 to 2013: What Happened over the Great Recession?

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2016
I look at wealth trends from 1962 to 2013, particularly for the middle class. Asset prices plunged between 2007 and 2010 but then rebounded from 2010 to 2013.
Edward N. Wolff
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Domesticating Wealth Inequality

Global Studies Quarterly
AbstractRelative wealth inequality between countries of the North and South has not improved since the era of decolonization, yet the LIO's economic regime has scarcely been challenged since the 1970s' New International Economic Order. This paper seeks to explain this puzzle by theorizing and empirically tracking a pervasive pattern of rhetorical ...
Vincent Pouliot, Scott Robert Patterson
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A Quantile Approach to the Relationship between Body Mass, Wealth, and Inequality [PDF]

Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds that 19th century US black and white BMIs were distributed symmetrically; neither wasting nor obesity was common. Nineteenth century BMI
Scott A. Carson
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