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Recent data gathered by the World Bank show that informal markets are present all over the world, but particularly in (developing and developed) countries with high levels of inequality. The aim of this paper is to analyse whether this apparent empirical link between inequality and the size of ...
Our study investigates a behavioral phenomenon through which inequality might have adverse effects on economic growth. In particular we investigate whether or not individuals exhibit a discouragement effect in the face of inequality that leads to lower work effort. If such an effect exists, it ...
However, when the symbolic threat of inequality at the system level is salient, it is more likely to activate their system justification motivation (and thus inhibit their self-interested motivation), thereby enhancing their system-justifying beliefs. Our dual-process model offers a new approach to...
“The book was my last attempt to try and get the evidence of the damaging effects of inequality onto the public agenda,” he says. “Before, I’d managed to do that only amongst academics in closely related fields to my own field of epidemiology. It hadn’t much got outside that. Bu...
other IMF staff estimates which show that the effects of an oil price shock on inflation—also scaled to be 10 percent initially—are also much larger for EMs than for advanced economies (note: here the focus is just on European economies)....
Since the 1980s, income inequality and residential segregation have increased in indus- trialized and developing countries. There is a body of literature that hypothesizes and examines the relationship between inequality and segregation on health. However, none of these studies constructs a mathematical...
In the presence of covariates, the conditional effects of inequality were restricted to Whites aged 18-44 years in the 2 highest income inequality quartiles and middle-aged Whites in counties with the highest level of income inequality. The health of Blacks of all ages, elderly Whites, and ...
race, and family background, academic aptitude and academic credentials, and the effects of school quality, high school resources, segregation, and curriculum placement; (6) inequality in occupational status; (7) income inequality; (8) inequality in job satisfaction; and (9) what can be done....
Inequality of wealth and its associated power has varied greatly over human history. It is often thought that the main levelers of inequality were natural disasters such as epidemics or earthquakes, and social turmoil such as wars and revolutions. Here w