نتایج جستجو برای: measures of income inequality

تعداد نتایج: 21196840  

2015
Antonis Adam Pantelis Kammas Athanasios Lapatinas

Adam, Antonis, Kammas, Pantelis, and Lapatinas, Athanasios—Income inequality and the tax structure: Evidence from developed and developing countries This paper seeks to examine the effect of income inequality on the structure of tax policies. We first use a simplified theoretical framework which allows us to formalize the testable implications of the relevant literature. Subsequently, our analy...

Journal: :Journal of epidemiology and community health 2002
P Lobmayer R G Wilkinson

STUDY OBJECTIVE This study was designed to discover whether the relation between income inequality and population death rates within the United States was mediated by the degree of residential segregation between rich and poor. DESIGN Using data for 276 metropolitan areas in the USA, residential segregation was defined as the extent to which people with different levels of income live in the ...

In the current structure of world economy, imports play an important role in the economic development strategy. Although taking the suitable policies for the imports of goods and services is important, but taking the correct strategy is subject to factors affecting imports. In the most of empirical studies, imports are a function of real income and real exchange rate. So, the effect of income i...

Abstract One of the major problems of developing governments, such as those of OPEC member states, is the government deficit and rising public debt. One of the reasons for this public debt is government policies faced with income inequalities. The opposite side said that the increased income inequality can lead to capital accumulation and thus increase production and tax payments and reduce go...

2012
Xavier Ramos Dirk Van de gaer Erik Schokkaert Kristof Bosmans Jose Luis Figueroa

Empirical Approaches to Inequality of Opportunity: Principles, Measures, and Evidence We put together the different conceptual issues involved in measuring inequality of opportunity, discuss how these concepts have been translated into computable measures, and point out the problems and choices researchers face when implementing these measures. Our analysis identifies and suggests several new p...

ژورنال: مدیریت سلامت 2009
باباخانی, محمد, راغفر, حسین,

Introduction: With changing pattern of diseases from infectious to chronic, the role of psychological and social determinants of health (SDH including distribution of income (income inequality) have found importance. Severe income inequality indicates the decrease in income available to the majority of people in society with its negative effects on health. Income inequality in society, increase...

2013
Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir Dagný Ósk Ragnarsdóttir

INTRODUCTION The aim of publicly-provided health care is generally not only to produce health, but also to decrease variation in health by socio-economic status. The aim of this study is to measure to what extent this goal has been obtained in various European countries and evaluate the determinants of inequalities within countries, as well as cross-country patterns with regard to different cul...

2014
Achim Wolf Ron Gray Seena Fazel

Individual level risk factors for violence have been widely studied, but little is known about country-level determinants, particularly in low and middle-income countries. We hypothesized that income inequality, through its detrimental effects on social cohesion, would be related to an increase in violence worldwide, and in low and middle-income countries in particular. We examined country-leve...

Revenue distribution and efforts to improve it is one of the most important issues facing governments. Income distribution is affected by important factors. Economic justice and equitable distribution of income, along with important issues such as economic growth and development, reducing inflation and unemployment, have always been of interest to economists. Equitable distribution of income an...

Journal: :Public health 2008
Fernando G De Maio

OBJECTIVES Despite a large body of empirical literature, a consensus has not been reached concerning the health effects of income inequality. This study contributes to ongoing debates by examining the robustness of the income inequality-population health relationship in Argentina, using five different income inequality indexes (each sensitive to inequalities in differing parts of the income spe...

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