In this review, I focus on the microeconomic implications of income inequality for household wellbeing, specifically, on whether income inequality per se has an impact on the health of household members. In doing so I review work that has posited the social and biological pathways through which...
Share on Facebook social mobility (redirected fromIncome mobility) Fig. 30Social Mobility.While changes in the occupational structure can be seen as the main determinant of the extent of opportunities for social mobility (1), and educational institutions act mainly as an avenue of social mobility ...
income among the representatives of antagonistic classes— that is, wages, on the one hand, and profit from capital (“unearned income”), on the other. As one manifestation of the universal law of capitalism accumulation, the income differential of the population reflects diametrically opposite ...
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This review article on Thomas Piketty's 'Capital in the twenty-first century' opens with a discussion of the trends in income and wealth inequality reported by Piketty and his co-workers. The significance of the rising trends of inequality after 1980 in contrast to the pre-1980 trends is ela...
Alcohol has toxic effects on the brain, liver, heart, and other internal organs. It also has toxic effects on the endocrine glands, which frequently leads to sexual dysfunction in men and often impairs a woman’s ability to bear children. Drunkenness lowers the body’s resistance to toxic and...
Google Share on Facebook (redirected fromadjunction) Dictionary Thesaurus Medical Legal Financial adjunct Adjunctsare parts of a sentence that are used to elaborate on or modify other words or phrases in a sentence. Along with complements, subjects, verbs, and objects, adjuncts are one of the fiv...
Panel Study on Income Dynamics. Consumption inequality is endogenous and matches well data from the U.S. Consumer Expenditure Survey. The total risk households face is decomposed into that realized before entering the labor market and that realized throughout the working years. In welfare terms, ...
aIncome inequality in China has risen rapidly in the past decades across regions, between rural and urban sectors, and within provinces. The dynamics of divergence across these sub-national areas have taken the form of a"race to the top"- meaning that all segments of the population, including...
von Leibniz, and other founders of higher mathematics, a variable was understood as a quantity that can vary—in the process of this variation it takes on different values. Variables were thus contrasted with constants—numbers or other quantities each of which has a unique, completely defined ...