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rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …
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Intergenerational inequality and old-age poverty are salient issues in contemporary China. China's aging population …
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The paper examines the appropriate domain of the Welfare State by exploring the areas in which free enterprise fails to provide adequate welfare state services. The paper outlines a simple coherent strategy for formulating government welfare state policy by identifying the relevant market...
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This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the …, inequality will then be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Furthermore, if the poor are liquidity … constrained then the positive association between inequality and fiscal conservatism will increase the persistence in the dynamics …
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wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies …
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lead to higher inequality across firms, increased segregation of labour markets and decreased within-firm inequality. This … workplace systems. Our results suggest that HPWOs increase both across and within firm inequality. We do not find evidence …
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absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …
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inequality, and analyses several explanations for this result. A causal link is established by showing that the results are … robust to the inclusion of city fixed-effects and city-specific time trends, and by using inequality in the woman’s state of … birth as a proxy for the local level of male inequality. Increasing male inequality explains about 30% of the marriage rate …
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We propose a market-for-offenses model of property crime, which explicitly accounts for protection expenditures among heterogeneous individuals. The crime equilibrium is modeled as a free-access equilibrium in which the match between criminals and victims equates the average returns to crime. We...
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In this chapter we inspect economic mechanisms through which technological progress shapes the degree of inequality … among workers in the labour market. A key focus is on the rise of US wage inequality over the past 30 years. However, we … also pay attention to how Europe did not experience changes in wage inequality but instead saw a sharp increase in …
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