Land Inequality and Workfare Policies

Workfare tendencies in Scandinavian welfare policies

Unemployment, or worklessness, is firmly on the agenda of various Western countries. Although other challenges to citizens' well-being are being identified, as increasing labour market insecurities and rising poverty rates, the problem of non-work is given the main public attention. Even countries with no experience of high unemployment rates, such as Norway, have recently introduced welfare re...

Macroeconomic Policies and Increasing Social-Health Inequality in Iran

Background Health is a complex phenomenon that can be studied from different approaches. Despite a growing research in the areas of Social Determinants of Health (SDH) and health equity, effects of macroeconomic policies on the social aspect of health are unknown in developing countries. This study aimed to determine the effect of macroeconomic policies on increasing of the social-health inequa...

Inequality – Origins , Impact and Policies

Climate policies under wealth inequality.

Taming the planet's climate requires cooperation. Previous failures to reach consensus in climate summits have been attributed, among other factors, to conflicting policies between rich and poor countries, which disagree on the implementation of mitigation measures. Here we implement wealth inequality in a threshold public goods dilemma of cooperation in which players also face the risk of pote...

Globalization, Inequality and Labor Market Policies

This paper addresses four questions. First, is globalization associated with more inequality in consumption or earnings? Second, is the labor market an important transmission mechanism? Third, can labor market policies reduce inequality? And fourth, would these policies have important side effects on efficiency? The answers are based on an analytical survey of the literature, including several ...