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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"income disparity"”.
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States Of Inequality: Government Partisanship, Public Policies, And Income Disparity In The American States, 1970-2005
A steady stream of research describes rising income inequality in the U.S. since the 1970s. Beneath this familiar story, however, are a variety of state experiences. In this dissertation, I develop and test a new theory to explain why income inequality varies in the states over time. My partisan …
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Sources of regional growth difference and income disparity during the reform period in China: an empirical analysis
… on the sources of regional growth difference and income disparity during the reform period in China. After a critical review of previous theoretical and empirical literature on this issue, a new analytical framework is constructed based on the growth theory of cumulative causation and endogenous …
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Structure and Structural Change in China's Economy
… formal way by examining the path of regional income inequality in China. The fourth essay employed a non-parametric method to examine spatial effects modeling the regional income disparity pattern in China. The main findings are that with the enlarging regional income disparity between the …
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NAFTA's distributional effect on Mexico: three essays in regional economics
… to grow faster than others, increasing regional disparity. To confirm that these changes are attributed to NAFTA and not to any other temporal factor, we divided the data by sectors, and found that the trade sector (manufacturing) is affected more strongly by the pull on the northern-border …
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Demographic Changes and Regional Economy: Simulation Results From the Chicago CGE Model
… in terms of its impact on economic growth, income (asset) distribution, and welfare. For this purpose, this paper uses a two-region computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, combined with an overlapping generations (OLG) framework. The first finding is that the aging population has …
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Income inequality and economic growth
… is whether initial conditions matter for income disparity among nations. If they don't, then countries will converge to a single regime once the structural features of the economies are controlled for. If they do, then countries will converge to multiple regimes even if the structural …
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Consumer Consequences of Economic Inequality
… the perceived education premium of college—the income gap between college graduates and high school graduates. Secondly, it motivates people to choose majors with higher earning potential but lower personal interests, as opposed to those that align more with their genuine interests but pay less. …
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Perceptions of men experiencing gender-based violence in Oshana region, Namibia
… lack of awareness of men’s right and income disparity. Based on the findings, the study recommended that the Ministry of Health and Social Services and the Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare should have rehabilitation centers for the male victims of GBV and train more social …
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Rethinking Social Assistance Policy to Reflect Modern Socio-Economic Realities
… is evidence of long-term usage and re-entry to income assistance programs. Due to its design, the current social assistance model functions not so much as a short-term safety net, but as a vortex, leading to continued and repeated need for income assistance. Data presented in this paper …
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A methodology for Identification and Development of Border Towns as Centres for Trade and Investment in Thailand
… other government objectives relating to regional income disparity and decentralisation policy. Further, the research also identifies a number of possible policy responses by government towards the role of border towns, and indicates a number of policy responsesth at could be implemented on four …
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Convergence: A New Future for the Samuel Madden Homes
… how they will continue to serve lower-income residents and ensure equitable access to housing and resources. In the City of Alexandria, the Alexandria Re-Development and Housing Authority (ARHA) has worked in recent years to partner with private developers to convert its existing stock …
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A political policy analysis of the integrated water resource management approach in South Africa’s water policy (1998 – 2001)
… has a multicultural society that reflects an income disparity and two major cultures, namely a modernised Western and a traditional African culture. As a result two subsidiary research questions follow: Can the commitment and impartiality of all the stakeholders that partake in the …
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Education and Meritocracy in China: The Role of Degrees in the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality
… of association at various points across the income or earnings distribution in either generation. Moreover, there has been comparatively less attention given to exploring the heterogeneity of mobility transmission across different social and geographical groups. Additionally, the empirical …
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Present Limitations and Future Projections: Food Insecurity, Housing Insecurity and Optimism Among College Students
<p>Within the last decade, research has identified wide-ranging disparities in access to basic needs among university students. These differences, such as a lack of adequate food and housing during university, provide a negative environmental experience with potential to limit one’s optimism or …