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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Income gap"”.
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The income gap and symphony orchestras
… as costs rise at a faster rate than earned income. The gap between earned income and costs is called the "Income Gap." The remedy is injections of cash to stop the disease from expanding; This thesis takes actual data from the American Symphony Orchestra League and tests Baumol's diagnosis. …
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Accounting for the Gender Income Gap in Urban China
… different sectors of the economy influence the income gap between men and women in urban China when traditional, socialist, and market mechanisms are all present. The data were collected from two large Chinese cities, Tianjin and Shanghai. The results of regression show that 1) Differences in …
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Reversal of black progress in the 1980s--an analysis of the black white family income gap
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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Investigating the book-tax income gap : factors which affect the gap and details regarding its most significant component
… suggests that recent changes in the book-tax income gap may be exogenous and transitory, due to changes to the calculation of book income, general business conditions or other factors which generate temporary differences, rather than due to the deceptive and permanent influence of tax …
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Identifying Factors That Influence Gender Disparities In Physician Income: Implications For Public Policy
… laws requiring equal pay should provide just income for females as compared to males. However, the literature continues to indicate that in general females earn less than males, a trend that is also true for physicians. Theoretically informed postulates are measured here with structural …
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Trabalho voluntário: relação entre motivação e cidadania em uma ONG ligada à educação na cidade de João Pessoa - PB
… of housing rights, labor and decrease the income gap between poor and rich. The altruistic construct obtained highest average and was that showed the most correlations whereas the learning had second highest average and showed only one correlation.
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Trajectories of Individual Behavior in the US Housing Market
… to the period of independent living, and the income gap with young people who remained independent widened. The residential movement of young people who make boomerang moves has an impact on their income, but this effect is short-lived. Going back to a parental house changes the region and …
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Three Essays on Applied Economics
… relationship between sectoral migration and the income gap within China. This work builds on my co-authored publication, "Intersectoral Labor Migration and Agriculture in the United States and Japan," published in Agricultural Economics. While the earlier study employed discrete thresholds and …
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Essays on taxation and firm behavior
… and their magnitudes relative to the book-tax income gap. We find that temporary differences account for a substantial share of the book-tax income gap. The key contributors to the increase in the book-tax gap include mark-to-market adjustments, property and valuation allowances. In …
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Essays on development and applied microeconomics
… for modelling household responses to negative income shocks. Chapter 3 studies the effect of a sharp rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ the household expenditure information to estimate the welfare loss induced by the price increase. Our findings suggest that we …
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Essays on development and applied microeconomics
… for modelling household responses to negative income shocks. Chapter 3 studies the effect of a sharp rice price increase on welfare and poverty in Bangladesh. We employ the household expenditure information to estimate the welfare loss induced by the price increase. Our findings suggest that we …
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Consumer Consequences of Economic Inequality
… dissertation endeavors to bridge this knowledge gap by uncovering two novel consumer consequences of economic inequality. To accomplish this, it draws upon a diverse range of data sources, including individual-level experimental and survey data, as well as aggregate-level transaction and census …
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School Leadership Practices, Student Socioeconomic Status, and Student Achievement in One Virginia School District
… contributing to the changes in the achievement gap among subgroups of students has consistently included such elements as educational attainment, employment and earnings, and neighborhoods affected by concentrated poverty. As the income gap has widened, so has the achievement gap between …
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Tracking and mathematical identity for rural adolescent students of color
… as it perpetuates racial injustice, widens the income gap, and does not foster equality (Gamoran, 2016). This is even more prominent for students who are socio-economically disadvantaged or minoritized. Also, dividing students into a group by their academic ability may cause them to self-label …
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Essays on human capital and economic development
… effect is responsible for less that 10% of the income gap between the poorest and richest regions in Brazil. In Chapter 4, I show that large governments hinder economic development by reducing competition in the private sector. The model features a public sector that uses human capital to …
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Trapped in One’s Own Housing: The Limitations of Housing Choices in Segregated Roma Neighborhoods = Az én házam az én börtönöm: A lakásdöntések korlátai a szegregátumokban
… conditions in the past decades, and that the “gap” in housing quality has somewhat closed. However, the proportion of those living in segregated neighborhoods has not diminished at all, and a growth in the concentration of the population of the same ethnicity has taken place. Compared to the …
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¿Informalidad voluntaria o forzada? Análisis de datos panel sobre las brechas de ingresos en Colombia
En Colombia, como en otras economías, la informalidad laboral es motivo de preocupación. El país enfrenta una de las tasas de informalidad más elevadas en la región, lo que plantea desafíos significativos debido a las razones y efectos asociados a este fenómeno laboral. La literatura relacionada en …
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Worried While Prospering – A study of the contradictions between consumer confidence and spending in Hungary
… of consumer confidence measures, closing the gap in the scientific literature in the discussions around its predictive power, and avoid the misconceptions in regard to its results and what it means for the society and the economy. The study revealed that the increase of expenditure cannot be …