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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Economic inequality"”.
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Three Essays in Economic Inequality
… and empirical analysis of fast-growing inequality over recent decades, and the last chapter examines the employment effect of raising the minimum wage, a policy commonly used to support low-wage workers to mitigate increasing inequality. The first chapter investigates why the upsurge of …
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Three Essays on Economic Inequality
… dissertation studies how market structures and economic incentives transform heterogeneity at agent levels into unequal economic outcomes. The first chapter studies the economic incentives that lead a country to specialise its production in specific segments of a supply chain, and how these …
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Consumer Consequences of Economic Inequality
… of research in related disciplines, including economics, management, politics, psychology, and sociology, marketing research has largely overlooked the downstream consequences of economic inequality, despite its undeniable impact on individuals' consumption decisions and experiences. This …
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The Political Consequences of Socio-Economic Inequality
… of an intermediary factor in-between socio-economic inequality and rise of populism, namely the institutions, both political and economic. While there is some empirical evidence showing the direct effect of economic insecurity and institutional trust on populism (e.g. Guiso et al. (2017), …
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Essays on Economic Inequality and Social Capital
Economic inequality remains one of the most persistent features of modern economies. While it is often discussed in terms of income and wealth, its reach extends beyond material welfare and is closely linked to patterns of trust, cooperation, and the social relations that underpin collective …
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Bringing economic inequality into coupled economic-environmental models
Coupled economic-environmental models are cross-disciplinary tools that explore how economic activity interacts with the environment and vice versa. This thesis focuses on models that estimate the economic consequences of climate change, different greenhouse gas emissions pathways, and mitigation …
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Measuring Perceived Economic Inequality: Implications for Consumer Research and Beyond
Perceived economic inequality has emerged as an important predictor of attitudes and behaviors, yet marketing is behind other fields in incorporating this important construct despite its potential for explaining marketplace attitudes and behaviors. However, further integrating this construct into …
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An international comparative study of attitudes towards socio-economic inequality
How teachers think about inequality in terms of what they aspire to and how they defend their views is surprisingly similar in the three study countries, Kenya, Mexico and the UK, despite their different positions in the world economic order. I attribute this to the near global hegemony of …
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Investigating Economic Inequality And Voter Turnout In The Industrialized Democracies
This paper investigates economic inequality and voter turnout in a sample of 21 industrialized democracies using a pooled time series model of elections from 1970 to 1999. The findings demonstrate a connection between inequality and voter turnout wherein increases in inequality lead to reductions …
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Socio-economic inequality and ethno-political conflict : evidence from Kenya
This study examines the influence of socio-economic inequalities on the probability of conflict in Kenya and aims to synthesise various causal hypotheses in the literature. This research extends to a regional analysis of a cross-national sample to understand the extent to which structural cleavages …
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Shaping economic inequality: the starring role of the household in the 'welfare triad'
… role of household in producing and reproducing inequality in contemporary societies. While individual and macro level factors influencing economic inequality have been widely investigated, meso level factors have received much less attention so far. This thesis, thus, investigates how the …
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Socio-economic inequality in the early career: the role of family and community
In this thesis I study how socio-economic background - seen as the socio-economic conditions while growing up and the resources someone has access to - affects the labour market outcomes of young adults. Through three distinct chapters I show that young adults from a disadvantaged background are …
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Economic Inequality Through a Contextual Lens: Spatial Variation in Beliefs, Opinion, and Policy Support
National-scale economic and political transformations are the backdrop for this dissertation. Income inequality has grown dramatically, and the political landscape is fractured with one rift between cities and the less urban areas that surround them. In three stand-alone chapters, I begin to …
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U.S. industry employment trends from 1969 to 1995 and the implications for economic inequality
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1984.
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PREDICTING POLICY: EXAMINING PERCEPTIONS OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY, COLOR-EVASIVE RACIAL ATTITUDES, AND BELIEFS ABOUT CAPITALISM
… about wealth distribution predict redistributive economic policy preferences. I hypothesized that beliefs about capitalism, perceptions of wealth distribution, and color-evasiveness predict policy preferences when controlling for Satisfaction With Life (SWLS) and that critical consciousness action …
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Democracy in Unequal Times: How Economic Inequality Influences Voter Turnout, Party Polarization, and Union Density
… three studies to explore the impact of income inequality on established democracies. The aim of this thesis is twofold: (1) to investigate the political sustainability of large income gaps; and (2) to understand why inequality increased in democracies. The first paper analyzes the behavior of …
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The Right Thing to Do: Moral Conviction Associated with Reducing Economic Inequality Predicts Support for Redistributive Policies
As economic inequality constantly grows, understanding what drives individuals’ support for redistribution is as critical as ever. In the current dissertation, we find evidence suggesting that attitudes towards reducing economic inequality can be experienced with moral conviction (i.e., perceived …
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Economic Inequality and Intimate Partner Violence against Women : An Analysis of the British Crime Survey 2008/09.
This thesis examines how economic inequality is associated with intimate partner violence against women. It finds working-age women in England and Wales with fewer economic resources are more likely to experience intimate partner violence compared to women with comparatively greater economic …
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Of all people, by all people, for all people? Perceptions of economic inequality and democracy in Africa
… I explore whether perceptions of individual economic inequality are linked to the legitimacy of democracy in Africa. Past research has suggested that high levels of economic inequality may affect the legitimacy of democracy, by reducing support for democracy and discouraging political …
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