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Inequality and well-being in transition economies: A non-experimental test of inequality aversion

Cojocaru, Alexandru - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

This paper examines the link between inequality and individual well-being using household survey data from 27 … Transition Economies, where income inequality increased considerably since 1989. A test of inequality aversion in individual … preferences that draws on the Fehr and Schmidt (QJE, 1999) specification of inequality aversion is proposed, and the difficulties …

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Transport consumption inequalities and redistributive effects of taxes: A comparison of France, Denmark and Cyprus

Berri, Akli; Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie Vincent; Mulalic, Ismir - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

contribution of vehicle use items to total expenditure inequality decreases over time, thus reflecting the more and more widespread …

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Happiness, deprivation and the alter ego

Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

The paper focuses on satisfaction with income and proposes a utility model built on two value systems, the `Ego' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to one own past and future income - and the `Alter' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to a...

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Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity

Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

as well off as he could be by undertaking inter-period income transfers. There is long-term ex-post inequality of …

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Status and income inequality in a knowledge economy

Peng, Baochun - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 4, pp. 581-595

sector and inequality of income rises with productivity. We show that the expected utility of all agents can fall while … for status and technology-induced rises in inequality. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014 …

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Inheritances and the distribution of wealth or whatever happened to the great inheritance boom?

Wolff, Edward; Gittleman, Maury - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 4, pp. 439-468

Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF), we found that on average over the period from 1989 to 2007, about one fifth of American households at a given point of time reported a wealth transfer and these accounted for quite a sizeable figure, about a quarter of their net worth. Over...

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