Economics Essays on the causes and consequences of income inequality HARVARD UNIVERSITY BarenboimIgorIncome inequality is at the heart of economics because it is intimately related to the design of incentive based schemes. The feature that makes this topic yet more interesting is the political economy...
This paper started with identifying the most important determinants of income inequality through theoretical research. Among the various theories of causes of inequality, I hypothesized creating a level playing for children at the very start of their career as students as an important determinant. In ...
Caused by changes in the interests of the sense of injustice and the decline in life satisfaction is the result of direct causes of conflict behavior.By the "sense of injustice" caused by the value of understanding the causes of income inequality,making people feel psychologically income gap is...
The increase in economic disparities over the past 30 years has prompted extensive research on the causes and consequences of inequality both in the United... L Cappellari,SW Polachek,K Tatsiramos 被引量: 0发表: 2016年 Income inequality: causes and consequences The increase in economic disparities...
Income inequality has been rising in a number of countries in recent years and has been a growing concern. The total income of high-income households has increased faster than that of low-income households in a number of countries. Simil... U Rani,M Furrer - 《Ilo Working Papers》 被引量...
the result of which is that the actual urban-rural income gap has more than tripled since 2003,and the Gini coefficient has been greater than 0.4,meaning that the income distribution is not within a reasonable range.The causes of income inequality are not only economic factors but also policy...
of the unequal provision of public goods and services, particularly in non-democratic regimes I argue and empirically show that if a government's policies, particularly in education provision, increase inequality of opportunity among citizens, they then engender greater resentment about income inequality...
distribution of income: regions with high concentrations of manufacturing activities typically have lower levels of inequality, whereas regions with high concentrations of tertiary services, arts, and entertainment, as well as knowledge-intensive business services tend to have higher levels of inequality. ...
Income distributionConfronting Income Inequality in Japan: A Comparative Analysis of Causes, Consequences and Reform, by Toshiaki Tachibanaki, is reviewed. This book seeks to demolish the widespread image of postwar Japanese society as being highly egalitarian in terms of income and wealth. Toshiaki ...
Inequality and the redistribution of income is a common example of an equity-efficiency tradeoff. Understanding the Equity-Efficiency Tradeoff An equity-efficiency tradeoff results when maximizing the efficiency of an economy leads to a reduction in its equity—as in how equitably its wealth or income...