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Administrative burdens may deepen inequality by creating costly experiences for vulnerable groups. Research to date …
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This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in Ireland from 1987-2005, using the Shapley value decomposition approach. The analysis used the household disposable income data from the Household Budget Survey to calculate...
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presence of inequality, however, it deviates or refracts from the ideal condition. In this paper, I try to measure economic … inequality from the index of refraction. First, I compute such an index for each stratum to evaluate condition in each and then … add all to propose an overall measure of economic inequality, which appears to be a standardised measure of the length of …
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the population, and so economic growth. To our knowledge, this is the only possibility for the inequality to be "bought …
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Very little is known about wealth-holding and its distribution in Ireland in the past. Here we employ death duty register data to analyse and identify a sample of the top wealth holders in Ireland between the early 1820s and late 1830s. We examine the sources of their wealth and its regional...
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This paper proposes a behavioral model of social learning that unies various forms of inferential reasoning in one … present evidence from three sources that these are the prevalent types of reasoning in social learning: a review of social … learning studies, existing data from Celen and Kariv (2004) as well as new experimental data that includes written accounts of …
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In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based modelling approach to explore it. The mechanism takes into account the relation between the phenomena that agents attempt to explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a...
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