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Attitudes to income inequality : experimental and survey evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2014

We review the survey and experimental findings in the literature on attitudes to income inequality. We interpret the latter as any disparity in incomes between individuals. We classify these findings into two broad types of individual attitudes towards the income distribution in a society: the...

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Subjective well-being, reference groups and relative standing in post-apartheid South Africa

Von Fintel, Marisa - In: African review of economics & finance : AREF : (a … 7 (2015) 1, pp. 6-31

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Who is deprived? who feels deprived? : labor deprivation, youth, and gender in Morocco

Serajuddin, Umar; Verme, Paolo - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 61 (2015) 1, pp. 140-163

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Distributional change, reference groups and the measurement of relative deprivation

Silber, Jacques; Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009

This paper attempts to explicitly integrate the idea of reference group when measuring relative deprivation. It assumes that in assessing her situation in society an individual compares herself with individuals whose environment can be considered as being similar to hers. By environment we mean...

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Attitudes to income inequality : experimental and survey evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita - 2015

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Perceptions of inequality

Knell, Markus; Stix, Helmut - 2017

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Positional concerns among the poor : does reference group matter? ; evidence from survey experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Andersson, Lisa; Martinsson, Peter; … - 2014

Previous research suggests a lower degree of positional concerns among people from poor countries. Yet the evidence is limited and most often builds on the assumption that people's reference groups are the same across all individuals. We conduct a survey experiment in urban Ethiopia that is...

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Positional concerns among the poor : does reference group matter? : evidence from survey experiments

Akay, Alpaslan; Andersson, Lisa; Martinsson, Peter; … - In: Journal of African economies 23 (2014) 5, pp. 673-699

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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated

Schiff, Maurice - 2006

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration's impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …

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Migration's Income and Poverty Impact Has Been Underestimated

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … from standard analysis. Second, existing studies examine migration’s impact on the poverty of the entire sample. However …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762256