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Shrinking share of middle-income group in Germany and the US
Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan; Schröder, Carsten; … - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 6 (2016) 18, pp. 199-210
According to calculations based on the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study, the proportion of middle-income group in Germany fell by six percentage points from 1991 to 2013, taking it to 54 percent. Germany is not the only country to have experienced such a downturn, however. Analyses of the...
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Schrumpfender Anteil an BezieherInnen mittlerer Einkommen in den USA und Deutschland
Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan; Schröder, Carsten; … - In: DIW Wochenbericht 83 (2016) 18, pp. 391-402
Die Gruppe der Bezieher eines mittleren Einkommens ist in Deutschland von 1991 bis 2013 um sechs Prozentpunkte auf 54 Prozent zurückgegangen. Das zeigen Berechnungen auf Basis des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP). Damit steht Deutschland nicht allein, denn vergleichbare Analysen für die USA...
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Economic and Social Effects of Opening
Wahiba, Nasfi Fkili - In: International Journal of Academic Research in Business … 5 (2015) 3, pp. 336-344
. Our study conducted for the case of Tunisia showed that the opening will increase inequality, if it is not accompanied by … human capital negatively act against rising inequality. Therefore, we will have to question about the nature of the opening …
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Taking care of your own: ethnic and religious heterogeneity and income inequality
Dincer, Oguzhan C.; Lambert, Peter J. - In: Journal of Economic Studies 39 (2012) 3, pp. 290-313
heterogeneity on the one hand and measures of inequality and redistribution on the other, using state-level US data. Design …/methodology/approach – The relationship between ethnic/religious heterogeneity and inequality/redistribution is estimated, first, with ordinary … least squares (OLS) and then with generalized method of moments (GMM). The principal explanatory variables for inequality …
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Polarization, inequality and growth: The Indian experience
Motiram, Sripad; Sarma, Nayantara - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
disparities. Comparing polarization and inequality, we find similarities, but also some differences. Our results therefore … underscore the importance of studying polarization as distinct from traditional inequality. …
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Desigualdade e polarização entre empregados na agricultura brasileira: 1992-2007
Hoffman, Rodolfo - In: Revista Economia e Sociedade 37 (2009) 8, pp. 12-12
, it is shown that the inequality of that distribution is stable and that its degree of polarization has a decreasing trend …. Next, the paper analyses the changes in the inequality between permanent and temporary employees and between those with or … distribution within these worker categories. Finally, the paper shows that the share of regional differences in the inequality of …
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Bi-Polarization Comparisons
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Echevin, Damien - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2003
This note provides simple tests for first-order bi-polarization orderings of distributions of living standards. In doing so, the paper also offers an ethical basis and an interpretation for the common use of some simple measures of distances from the median. Illustrations using Luxembourg Income...
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Linking Conflict to Inequality and Polarization
Esteban, Joan; Ray, Debraj - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2009
In this paper we study a behavioral model of conflict that provides a basis for choosing certain indices of dispersion as indicators for conflict. We show that the (equilibrium) level of conflict can be expressed as an (approximate) linear function of the Gini coefficient, the...
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Polarization, inequality and growth: The Indian experience
Motiram, Sripad; Sarma, Nayantara - Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR) - 2011
been associated with widening disparities. Comparing polarization and inequality, we find similarities, but also some … differences. Our results therefore underscore the importance of studying polarization as distinct from traditional inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009279898
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An intra-group variance based polarization measure
Palacios-González, Federico; García-Fernández, Rosa - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
In this paper, it will be shown that polarization not only depends on identification and alienation. There exist additional factors such as the share of power held by each of the groups and the number of groups that should be considered to compute it. Consistent with this idea and with the basic...
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