Subjective Inequality: a Review of International Comparative Studies on People’s Views about Inequality

Inequality and Subjective Well-Being

Diminishing marginal well-being from income suggests that redistributing income from the rich to the poor will raise average levels of well-being within a society. This utilitarian logic suggests that— conditional on average income—countries with greater income inequality will experience lower levels of average well-being. Yet existing research has failed to find clear evidence that inequality ...

Essays on International Trade and Inequality

Title of Document: ESSAYS ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE AND INEQUALITY Lourenço Senne Paz, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009 Directed By: Professor Nuno Limão Department of Economics In this dissertation I assess the impact of developing country trade liberalization on their wage inequality by focusing on two possible channels, namely job formality and inter-industry wage premium. Informal workers are a larg...

Poverty, inequality and human development of indigenous peoples in Bolivia

Inequality as a Determinant of Comparative Advantage

This paper investigates the link between domestic income inequality and international trade using a dynamic model of occupational choice. After showing how systematic patterns of comparative advantage arise among countries with no di®erences in their economic fundamentals, I provide two results regarding trade liberalization describing the full transition dynamics. First, international income d...

Investigating The Effect of Education Inequality on Inequality of Income Distribution in Iran’s Provinces

Introduction: Inequality of income distribution is one of the socio-economic issues of developing countries, including Iran. One of the proposed solutions to deal with this phenomenon is to reduce educational inequality. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of educational inequality on income inequality in the provinces of the country during the years 1380 to 1394. Method: In...