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Can we steer income comparison attitudes by information provision? : evidence from randomized survey experiments in the US and the UK

Shigeoka, Hitoshi; Yamada, Katsunori - 2015

Economists have long been concerned that negative attitudes about relative income reduce social welfare. This paper … that comparing income with others may diminish their welfare even when income levels are actually increasing - made …

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The Legal Barriers to International Movement of Goods and Their Impact on the Administration of Small Scale Organisations in the United Kingdom

Kingston, Kato Gogo - 2011

The carriage of goods across international boundaries involves bulk and sometimes complex transportation and therefore requires planning and the deployment of resources and logistics. In most cases, the use of sea transportation is commonly preferred. The legal issues surrounding the carriage of...

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'Ambassadors of Commerce' : The Commercial Traveler in British Culture, 1800-1939

French, Michael J. - 2011

This paper presents a reading of British literary representations of commercial travelers between 1800 and 1939. Three forms of representation are used: nonfiction representations by others, travelers' self-representations, and fictional representations. We find remarkable continuity in...

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The importance of product reformulation versus consumer choice in improving diet quality

Griffith, Rachel; O'Connell, Martin; Smith, Kate - 2014

Improving diet quality has been a major target of public health policy. Governments have encouraged consumers to make healthier food choices and firms to reformulate food products. Evaluation of such policies has focused on the impact on consumer behaviour; firm behaviour has been less well...

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How the Distribution of After-Tax Income Changed Over the 1990s Business Cycle : A Comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Oshio, Takashi; Rovba, Ludmila - 2008

Using kernel density estimation we find that over their 1990s business cycles the entire distribution of after-tax (disposable) income moved to the right in the United States and Great Britain while inequality declined. In contrast, Germany and Japan experienced less growth, a rise in inequality...

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How the distribution of after-tax income changed over the 1990s business cycle : a comparison of the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Japan

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Oshio, Takashi; Rovba, Ludmila - 2007

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A Tale of Two Ginis in the US, 1921-2012

Schneider, Markus - 2016

, the welfare effects of the different forces behind an increasing Gini index can be evaluated in light of the Lorenz … strict Lorenz dominance by previous income distributions, and therefore are not associated with lower welfare in an absolute …-driven increase in inequality since 1981 appears to have been welfare reducing …

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Tax and benefit reforms to support employment and inclusiveness and address poverty in Italy

Bulman, Tim; Pacifico, Daniele; Pisu, Mauro; … - 2019

This paper assesses Italy’s 2019 tax and benefit reforms, analyses hypothetical reforms and proposes a reform package that balances goals of reducing poverty, encouraging employment and fiscal sustainability. Using the OECD’s Tax-Benefit and the EUROMOD microsimulation models, it shows that...

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The Distribution of Household Consumption-Expenditure Budget Shares

Alessi, Lucia - 2009

This paper explores the statistical properties of household consumption-expenditure budget share distributions — defined as the share of household total expenditure spent for purchasing a specific category of commodities — for a large sample of Italian households in the period 1989-2004. We...

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A review of empirical studies and models of income distributions in society

Richmond, Peter; Hutzler, Stefan; Coelho, Ricardo; … - In: Econophysics and sociophysics : trends and perspectives, (pp. 131-159). 2006

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