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Multivariate indices of polarization are constructed to measure effects of non-income attributes like wealth and education. Polarization is considered as the presence of groups which are internally homogeneous, externally heterogeneous, and of similar size. We propose a class of polarization indices which is built from measures of relative groups size and from decomposable indices of socio-economic ...
In:
Journal of Economic Inequality
7 (2009), 4, 435-460
| Chiara Gigliarano, Karl Mosler
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The well‐known index of income bipolarization proposed by Wolfson (1994) requires two groups to be split according to the median income and, therefore, to be non‐overlapping. The aim of this paper is to propose a new polarization index in the spirit of the Wolfson index. It allows for any possible partition of the population in two or more (also overlapping) groups. The new index maintains the simplicity ...
In:
Review of Income and Wealth
65 (2019), 4, 712-735
| Chiara Gigliarano, Daniel Nowak, Karl Mosler
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The first half of the report sheds some new light on the following questions with a detailed and consistent comparison of income distributions in Western Germany and the UK from 1984 to 1992. To what extent was the income distribution in Western Germany similar to the UK in 1984? Did the inequality of West German incomes rise to the same extent? What was the differing role of the labour market, the ...
London:
The Institute for Fiscal Studies,
1998,
| Christopher Giles, Amanda Golsing, Francois Laisney, Thorsten Geib
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In:
Futures
23 (1991), 8, 787-800
| Katrin Gillwald, Roland Habich
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Bonn:
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),
2007,
(IZA DP No. 2884)
| Jose Ignacio Gimenez, Jose Alberto Molina, Almudena Sevilla Sanz
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In:
Monthly Labor Review
120 (1998), 3, 16-20
| Robert J. Gitter, Markus Scheuer
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Understanding the formation of trust at the individual level is a key issue given the impact that it has been recognized to have on economic development. Theoretical work highlights the role of the transmission of values such as trust from parents to their children. Attempts to empirically measure the strength of this transmission relied so far on the cross-sectional regression of the trust of children ...
Berlin:
DIW/SOEP,
2016,
(SOEPpapers 856)
| Corrado Giulietti, Enrico Rettore, Sara Tonini
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the German Socio-Economic Panel with detailed local labor market characteristics for the period 1984 to 2009. We exploit the longitudinal component of the data to analyze how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Immigrants are shown to be healthier than ...
Berlin:
DIW Berlin,
2014,
(SOEPpapers 653)
| Osea Giuntella, Fabrizio Mazzonna
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In:
Journal of Housing Economics
9 (2000), 1-2, 1-23
| Edward L. Glaeser, Bruce Sacerdote
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Debate continues in many European countries about both equality of opportunity and the continuing wastage of talent, and the ways in which differing systems of secondary schooling contribute to these. Drawing on Turner’s concepts of sponsored and contest mobility and on Allmendinger’s classification along the dimensions of stratification and selection, we describe the amount of flexibility currently ...
In:
European Sociological Review
27 (2011), 5, 570-585
| Judith Glaesser, Barry Cooper