Inequality grew substantially not only in many developed countries during the 1980s and 1990s, but also in most developing countries. The growth in inequality was particularly severe in Latin America and Africa, but significantly less in many East Asian countries. The diverse patterns of income inequality motivate my research, which reveals the important forces underlying the dynamics of inequa...

New national and international economic and social forces have reshaped national geographies in general and the characteristics of cities in particular, resulting in a range of diverse social and spatial outcomes. These outcomes, which include greater differentiation across, within and between metropolitan regions and cities, have become a feature of the economic and social forces associated wi...

the purpose of this research was to study the effects of four personal and social variables including the age, literacy, job experience and size of herd on different variables such as implementing of managerial strategies in transition period, relevant costs of these strategies, average production per head and gross income of milk sale per head. for this purpose all required information were co...

The topic of rising income inequality is an Anglo-Saxon problem. According to World Bank data for a large sample of countries, Gini coefficients on market income have increased in the last four decades for the Unites States, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand (Table 1 in the Appendix). The trend is insignificant for most of the other large industrialized countries, among them (West) Germany,,1...

Curricular issues of subject Applied Mathematics to Social Sciences are studied in relation to university entrance exams performed in several Spanish regions between 2009-2014. By using quantitative and qualitative analyses, it has been studied how these exams align with curriculum and how they produce a washback on curriculum and teachers' work. Additionally, one questionnaire about teachers' ...

The spectacular revival of economic sociology in the US in the 1980s and in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century will be regarded as part of a paradigm shift in social sciences. Whereas classical sociology almost always dealt with normatively defined situations and value-based actions in which individual decisions, interests, and other situational aspects disappear from view, neo-classic...