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Measuring universal health coverage based on an index of effective coverage of health services in 204 countries and territories, 1990-2019: a systema…
2020
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World Interest Rates, Inequality and Growth: an Empirical Analysis of the Galor-Zeira Model
2014
Following Galor and Zeira (1993), we study the effect of the world interest rate on inequality and growth for the period 1985-2005, characterized by falling world interest rates and cross-country income polarization. We argue that the two phenomena are related on th e basis of the following findings, which are in accordance with the predictions of the Galor and Zeira model: 1) a reduction of the world inter est rates increases inequality in rich countries and decreases inequ ality in poor countries; 2) inequality has a negative (and significant) eff ect on human capital accumulation in rich countries and a positive (b ut mostly not significant) effect in poor countries; 3) human capital po …
Diseguaglianze, fiducia e capitale sociale nel Mezzogiorno
2014
How can it be explained that certain societies have a higher or lower endowment of social capital in than others? Some data will be provided here which suggest that the endowment of social capital can be traced to a certain configuration of social relationships. It is possible to identify in social relationships the reasons that motivate the social actors to not be involved in producing social capital. The aim is to explore the relationship between social capital and inequality, verifying whether the available data corroborate the argument that the shortage of social capital in the south of Italy can be attributed to a greater incidence of inequality and identifying which social mechanisms …
Valutazione della bontà di una recente misura di ineguaglianza: uno studio di simulazione
2010
La misura di ineguaglianza proposta da Zenga (2007) per valutare il grado di concentrazione della ricchezza è valutata attraverso studi di simulazione. Tali studi riferiti anche come metodo di Monte Carlo, sono usati per investigare il comportamento di metodi statistici e misure sotto situazioni controllate, quando l’approccio analitico è complesso.
On Carlson"s and Shafer"s inequalities
2014
In this paper the authors re ne the Carlson"s inequalities for inverse cosine function, and the Shafer"s inequalities for inverse tangent function.
What Explains the Long-term Evolution of Regional Income Inequality in Spain?
2018
This chapter analyses the proximate causes of territorial inequality. To do this per-capita income inequality is broken down into elements related to differences in regional labour markets and elements linked to the presence of differences in labour productivity between regions. Then the factors that determine these differences in productivity are examined by carrying out a number of quantitative exercises to see whether or not they are in some way connected to the territories’ different production structures or whether they are due to the different levels of productivity registered by each sector on a regional scale. This set of exercises shows which of the potential explanatory factors wa…
Monetary policy and the redistribution of net worth in the U.S
2021
The view that expansionary monetary policy can exacerbate both income and wealth inequality by increasing asset prices has become increasingly popular. The aim of this paper is to study the distributive effects of monetary policy on wealth inequality. In the first part of this research, we develop a simple framework based on accounting identity to examine the redistributive repercussions of changes in monetary policy on net worth through different channels. Based on this framework, in the second part of the paper, we show empirical evidence concerning the effects of monetary policy on wealth inequality in the US. To derive this, we combined macro and micro data, and proceeded in two steps. …
Hemivariational Inequalities and Hysteresis
2001
Hemivariational inequalities introduced by P.D. Panagiotopoulos are generalizations of variational inequalities. This type of inequality problems arises, e.g. in variational formulation of mechanical problems whenever nonmonotone and multivalued relations or nonconvex energy functions are involved. Typical examples of such kind of phenomena are nonmonotone friction laws and adhesive contact laws. Mathematically these nonmonotone relations are described by means of generalized gradients (in sense of F.H. Clarke) of nonconvex potential functions. For applications and for their mathematical treatment we refer to [9],[10],[13]–[18].
Pandemics and Inequality: Assessing the Impact of COVID-19
2020
This chapter provides evidence on the impact of major epidemics from the past two decades on inequality and job prospects. Our results justify the concern that the COVID-19 pandemic could significantly raise inequality; past events of this kind, even though much smaller in scale, have led to increases in the Gini coefficient, lowered the employment-to-population ratio for those with basic education compared to those with higher education, and pushed people into precarious work in the form of self-employment or in the informal sector.