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International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies and experiments by psychologists demonstrate...
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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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We study the implications of electoral corruption for resource allocation, factor market equilibrium and inequality. We …
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This paper's point of departure is that low-quality institutions, concentration of political power, and underdevelopment are persistent over time. Its analytical model views an equal distribution of political power as a commitment device to enhance institutional quality thereby promoting growth....
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This Paper develops a model of political consensus in order to explain the missing link between inequality and …-interested politicians propose non-discriminatory policies. We study how much inequality can be sustained in a democracy and how the limits … to redistribution vary with initial inequality. We find that the bounds of the set of political equilibria may react in a …
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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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