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In this paper, we introduce and discuss the passage to hydrodynamic equations for kinetic models of conservative economies, in which the density of wealth depends on additional parameters, like the propensity to invest. As in kinetic theory of rarefied gases, the closure depends on the knowledge...
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Current debates on threats to social integration in times of multiple crises call for a better understanding of the relationship between socioeconomic inequality and sociocultural value conflicts. The aim of this article is to (re)introduce the concept of social milieus as a promising approach...
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This paper aims to show that economic theory has become ‘desocialised’ and separated from social theory through the adoption of individualistic methods and neglect of social relations and structures. A historical overview traces how the social content of economic theory has diminished,...
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of the first round, leading to a pattern of societal stratification. Participants are informed individually about points …
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The appropriate application of statistical methods in enterprises should have an important role in business decision-making processes. However, Croatian enterprises still tend to have certain resistance to statistical methods. The new challenges introduced by the COVID-19 pandemic emphasised the...
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This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after … unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …
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being chosen, we show that meritocratic recruitment actually leads to class stratification and autorecruitment. We analyze … the consequences of stratification resulting from meritocratic selection for the development of a country, and show that …
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Weighting is a largely used concept in many fields of statistics and has frequently cause controversies on its justification and profit. In this paper, we analyze a weighted version of the well-known local polynomial regression estimators, derive their asymptotic bias and variance, and find that...
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This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after … unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267316
ability students for college and also increased the ability stratification of institutions within states. We also examined two …
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