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...
well-paid jobs, who have come to believe the entire financial system is a rigged game run for the benefit of insiders, and I think the distortions at the top of the income and wealth scale are a big part of the reason why.
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. ...
Using data from the first six rounds of the European Social Survey, it shows that income inequality reduces participation and enlarges the participatory gap between better- and worse-off. In contrast, economic contraction has no effect on the overall level of participation and makes the poor ...
Income inequality: causes and consequences 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... M Bernasconi 被引量: 0发表: 2016年 4. Growing Inequality: Causes and Consequences The increase ...
The political, social and economic wellbeing of Nigerians have reached a tipping point because of the vicissitudes of climate change, the falling value of ... PA Assibong,F Chidozie,J Bakare 被引量: 0发表: 2017年 Politico economic consequences of rising income inequality This paper develops a...
We come now to a central claim of this book, namely that economic inequality at the levels commonly found in developing countries is a scourge and that an obligation rests on public policy-makers, both nationally and internationally, to do whatever is in their power to reduce it. In the ...
Inequality and Conflict:不平等和冲突 热度: -1- ConsequencesofInequalityfor Education VeronikaBaumgärtel PaulinaHofman AgataJankowska MarcC.Zurhold IntroductionReasonsConsequencesCountermeasuresConclusion -2- Inequalitiesareassociatedwith •ratesofobesity ...
This paper examines the welfare consequences of a slow-moving shift in the aggregate production technology that raises income inequality in a manner consistent with U.S. experience over the past three decades. We develop a general-equilibrium production model that is designed to approximate observed ...
Public policy The Political Causes and Consequences of Inequality of Opportunity YALE UNIVERSITY Kenneth Scheve LuXiaoboThis dissertation seeks to investigate the causes and consequences of the unequal provision of public goods and services, particularly in non-democratic regimes I argue and empirically ...