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Deprivation, segregation, and socioeconomic class of UK immigrants : does English proficiency matter?

Aoki, Yu; Santiago, Lualhati - 2018

in the United Kingdom. Taking advantage of a unique dataset, we measure the extent of residential segregation along …

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Mapping stratification : the industry-occupation space reveals the network structure of inequality

Hartmann, Dominik; Jara-Figueroa, Cristian; Kaltenberg, Mary - 2019

Social stratification is determined not only by income, education, race, and gender, but also by an individual’s job characteristics and their position in the industrial structure. Utilizing a dataset of 76.6 million Brazilian workers and methods from network science, we map the Brazilian...

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"Hans im Glück": die Generierung von Systemen sozialer Ungleichheit durch ungleichen Tausch

Kreutz, Henrik; Kreutz, Christine - In: Leben und leben lassen : Beiträge zur Konferenz über …, (pp. 109-132). 1997

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The Role of Referrals in Immobility, Inequality, and Inefficiency in Labor Markets

Bolte, Lukas; Immorlica, Nicole; Jackson, Matthew O. - 2021

We study the consequences of job markets' heavy reliance on referrals. Referrals screen candidates and lead to better matches and increased productivity, but disadvantage job-seekers who have few or no connections to employed workers, leading to increased inequality. Coupled with homophily,...

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Networks, Markets, and Inequality : Comment

Cao, Zhigang - 2020

Gagnon and Goyal (2017) develop an elegant model to understand the interaction between community and markets. One key argument is that, among others, whether markets and social ties are substitutes or complements plays a decisive role: markets undermine social ties in the case of substitutes and...

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Social segregation and the dynamics of group inequality

Bowles, Samuel (contributor); Sethi, Rajiv (contributor) - 2006

We explore the dynamics of group inequality when segregation of social networks places the initially less affluent …, provided that social segregation is sufficiently great, (ii) there is threshold level of integration above which group … acquiring human capital can expand the range over which reducing segregation can be Pareto-improving. -- segregation ; networks …

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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Can the structure of inequality explain fiscal redistribution? : revisiting the social affinity hypothesis

Lübker, Malte - In: Socio-economic review 19 (2021) 2, pp. 735-763

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Bringing the social structure back in : a rents-based approach to inequality

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Can the structure of inequality explain fiscal redistribution? : revisiting the social affinity hypothesis

Lübker, Malte - 2019

Lupu and Pontusson (2011) argue that the structure of income inequality, rather than its level, can explain differences in fiscal redistribution across modern welfare states. Contrary to the assertion that there is robust evidence in support of this proposition, the present paper challenges the...

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