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Showing 1 to 20 of 2597 for “"inequality"”.
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Trust and Inequality: Are Perceptions of Inequality Influencing Trust?
… a significant relationship between trust and inequality at both the individual and national levels (Wilkinson and Pickett, 2010), but it is unclear whether the absence of trust produces inequality or vice versa. Large social surveys, such as the General Social Survey, that attempt to measure …
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Inequality in Perspective: Rethinking Inequality Measurement, Minimum Wages and Elites in Mexico
The role of inequality in development has been the subject of long-standing debates in academic and policy circles. Notwithstanding disagreements about exactly how the two are linked, conventional wisdom agrees that inequality is an objective ‘fact’ that can be measured free from ideological …
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Crafting public perceptions of inequality: analysis of Korean beliefs about income inequality
… to the norms and beliefs that justify economic inequality. Popular commitment to those norms and beliefs in a society, scholars have suggested, buttresses the legitimacy of capitalism in Western society. In Korea, however, such favorable norms and beliefs regarding inequality have never been …
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Inequality in Labour Markets
… each of which studies a separate dimension of inequality in modern labour markets. Each chapter analyses the individual-level behaviours of workers or firms that underpin regional and aggregate distributional features of labour markets. Together, they address cross-sectional wage inequality …
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Three essays on inequality
"This dissertation analyzes inequality focusing on labor market frictions that determine occupational choice and on different educational policies that determine the level of education and human capital accumulation. The first essay presents an overlapping generations model with three different …
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Organizations, Occupations, and Inequality
… and occupational dynamics of social inequality. It explores how organizations and occupations contribute to and can help address patterns of social inequality. Each paper investigates a different aspect of social inequality within the workplace – from the micro-dynamics of social …
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Inequality in Political Representation
In many countries the near-universal right to vote in elections has been a core attribute of their democratic institutions for decades, and in some cases over a century. However, the political experience of many of these very countries over the past decade have often alternated between apathy and …
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Testing transitivity using inequality-constrained inference: Transitivity, probabilistic models, and inequality-constrained inference
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-12-01
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Income Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Which Areas Have the Greatest Inequality and Why?
… placed on the high and growing level of income inequality in the United States. This composition begins to fill a void in the existing literature by examining specific urban areas that have particularly high levels of inequality and the characteristics that factor into inequality. In this paper, …
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Harnack inequality for nonlocal operators
… 1, we show the scale-invariant elliptic Harnack inequality holds for a class of nonlocal operators, which are second order elliptic differential operators perturbed by non- local operators. We assume the existence of a conservative Hunt process corresponding to each operators $L$ in that class, …
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Power, inequality and social justice
This thesis will comprise nine peer-reviewed journal articles and one peer reviewed book chapter, complemented by a critical analysis of how the work creates a coherent and original contribution to the synthesis of evidence and new methods in the field of participation and reducing inequalities. …
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Income inequality and economic growth
A central issue in the growth literature 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 …
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Inequality Under Frictional Labour Markets
… the emergence of, and the interaction between, inequality in earnings and inequality in wealth, when labour markets are frictional. Chapter 1 investigates the implications of search frictions and human-capital accumulation for the equilibrium distribution of wages when firms invest optimally in …
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Essays on Institutions and Inequality
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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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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Empirical Essays on Spatial Inequality
Spatial inequality is increasingly rising across countries within both the Global North and South. There has been a long-standing debate in the academic community regarding the relevance and significance of spatial inequality. Early perspectives maintained that spatial inequality is a price to pay …
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Three Essays on Economic Inequality
… a theoretical framework that studies how inequality among individuals affects the participation incentives of the individuals and explains why agreements that balance the rent-seeking behaviour of wealthy individuals with the redistribution interests of the poor reduce the adverse effects …
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