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Showing 1 to 20 of 222 for “"income inequality"”.
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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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Income Inequality, Externalities, and Housing Segregation
The relationship between household income and housing segregation is examined, with a focus on the idea that higher income households disproportionately generate positive externalities that increase housing prices. A review of existing literature is provided. A series of models are also developed …
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Inter-Provincial Income Inequality in China
The overall conclusion of the study is that in the early phase of the market reform process initial conditions are more important than the tendencies of the market process. In the early reform period distortions in the spatial and sectoral pattern of China's economy and price system must be unwound …
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Income Inequality and Prejudice in the US
How does income inequality impact intergroup relations in the US? I used a multilevel modeling approach to test the effects of income inequality on attitudes toward US minority groups from the American Election Studies, from 1970-2008. Rising income inequality as measured by Gini predicted …
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Essays in Financial Development and Income Inequality
… financial development, economic growth, and income inequality.</p> <p>Chapter 2 describes empirical research on the relationship between financial development and income inequality based on Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) method using a Chinese provincial dataset between 1998 and 2014. …
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Essays on fiscal policy and income inequality
… of economic growth in developing economies is income inequality. Thus many studies in macroeconomic theory have attempted to determine what are the main ways in which inequality can be reduced. Redistributive fiscal policy has been considered an important way to reduce inequality and increase …
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Married Women's Employment and Family Income Inequality
… women's employment and earnings have on family income inequality in one developing country, Malaysia. Using the first and second waves of the Malaysian Family Life Surveys, this study finds, first, that married women's employment has increased from 1976 to 1988. Second, married women's …
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Income Inequality, Household Borrowing, and the Business Cycle
… the United States has experienced increasing income inequality while transitioning to a consumption-led economy. This dissertation investigates the foundations of the 2008 recession and offers an explanation for the slow growth recovery. Three distinct papers examine a different aspect of …
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Financial evolution and income inequality: channels and evidence
… makes original contribution to knowledge in income inequality research area by investigating the links between financial developments and income inequality for a diverse panel of 36 countries over a 26-year period from 1980 to 2005. Based on an extensive literature review and use of a new set …
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Effects of Financial Sector Development on Income Inequality
… strands of literature on the effects of FSD on income inequality allude to conflicting theoretical predictions. The major limitation of the previous studies is that they use financial institution depth measures as a proxy of aggregated FSD indicators. Financial depth alone does not consider the …
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Income Inequality, Human Capital and Economic Growth in China
… reviewing the existing literature on the inequality-growth nexus, this thesis then conducts empirical studies to explore the spatial dynamics of China’s regional income inequality and economic growth, investigates the relationship between inequality and growth, and the influences of human …
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Income Inequality And Vulnerabiility To Flood Hazard In Brazil
<p>Social theorists suggest that income inequality within a society leads to a breakdown of social cohesion, spatial segregation, and as a result, uneven public resource access. I will assess whether this social phenomenon is important to consider when measuring vulnerability to climate change in …
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Essays on Economic Policy: Income Inequality and Health Insurance
… United States at the dawn of the 21st century: income inequality and the affordability of health insurance.</p> <p>The chapter on income inequality uses the Solow Model of economic growth to model the evolution of inequality over time. In steady state, differences in household saving rates …
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Income Inequality and Wage Differentials: A Quantile Regression Approach
The third chapter provides a descriptive analysis of the gender wage gap using quantile regression. Many studies have examined the gender wage gap in the United States but this is the first to provide systematic analysis of the gender wage gap using quantile regression over time. Using data from …
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Beyond Divergence: Socioeconomic Status and Perceived Income Inequality in China
Past research has been divergent about perceived income inequality among diversely positioned members of the Chinese population. Several scholars have suggested that persistent earnings disparity results in societal unrest while others claim that most Chinese citizens view existing disparities as …
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Economic experiments on truth-telling, information aggregation, and income inequality
… provide a causal identification of the impact of income inequality on attribution and social trust. We do so by using a combination of surveys and behavioral lab experiments. Using positional primes we find that a higher relative position has a positive impact on belief in meritocracy and social …
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Analysing the effect of financial inclusion on income inequality in Namibia
… the effect of financial inclusion on household income and well-being, much is not known about the distributional effects across the different income quintiles. This study contributes to the literature by examining the effect of financial inclusion on household well-being and income inequality in …
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Financial development, economic growth and income inequality: a panel data approach
Since the pattern of income distribution can be influenced by financial development, it is of major importance to both developing and developed economies. To add to the body of literature, this paper tested empirically, within a panel data framework, the theoretical foundations of the linear …
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