Sökning: "Inequality"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 532 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Inequality.

1. 6. Fairness, Reciprocity and Inequality: Experimental evidence from South Africa

   Författare :Martine Visser; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; inequality; cooperation; punishment; public goods; experimental economics; social norms; inequality aversion; altruism; reciprocity; stake size; social capital; South Africa;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of six papers, related to artifactual field experiments, conducted in South Africa. The main focus of the thesis is the effect of different forms of heterogeneity on cooperation and punishment within groups. LÄS MER

3. 7. Monetary Policy and Economic Inequality

   Författare :Josefin Kilman; Nationalekonomiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Monetary policy; Monetary policy shocks; Vector auto-regression; Local projections; Income inequality; Wealth inequality; Labor unions; Administrative register data; Savings; Macroeconomic policy;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis consists of four independent empirical papers on monetary policy and economic inequality. The first paper explores the Romer and Romer (R&R) (2004) framework to estimate monetary policy shocks. R&R propose a simple method to estimate shocks using forecast and real-time data, but such data is not always available. LÄS MER

4. 8. Att utmana förändringens gränser : En studie om förändringsarbete, partnerskap och kön med Equal-programmet som exempel

   Författare :Anna Isaksson; Johanna Esseveld; Lena Abrahamsson; Högskolan i Halmstad; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Transformative work; Change; Partnership; Equal Programme; Doing gender; Leadership; Growth; Discrimination; Institutional ethnography; Social relations; Ruling relations; Governance; Inequality; Equality; Diversity; Förändringsarbete; Förändring; Partnerskap; Equal-programmet; Att göra kön; Ledarskap; Tillväxt; Diskriminering; Institutionell etnografi; Sociala relationer; Styrningsrelationer; Governance; Ojämlikhet; Jämställdhet; Mångfald; Sociology; Sociologi; inequality; governance; Change; transformative work; partnership; Equal Programme; doing gender; leadership; growth; discrimination; institutional ethnography; ruling relations; social relations; equality; diversity; working life;

   Sammanfattning : In this thesis the overall aim is to analyse conceptions of change with the point of departure being texts developed within the framework of three development partnerships financed by the European Social Fund's Equal Programme 2001-2007. The development partnerships, consisting of collaborating parties from both the public and private sector, aimed at developing new methods and ideas in order to counteract discrimination and all kinds of inequality in working life. LÄS MER

5. 9. Essays on Inequality, Insolvency and Innovation

   Författare :Paula Roth; Erik Lindqvist; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Inequality; Relative Deprivation; Consumption; Household Debt; Risk-sharing; Social Comparison; Status; Conspicuous Consumption; Innovation; Occupational Choice; Insolvency; Entrepreneurship; Economics; Nationalekonomi;

   Sammanfattning : First Impressions Last – Does Inequality Increase Status Consumption and Household Debt? (with Elin Molin): Recent decades have seen an increase in income inequality and household debt-to-GDP ratios in many countries, and several studies have suggested that higher income inequality spurs borrowing among nonrich households through their preference to "Keep up with the Joneses". In this paper, we show that standard Keeping up with the Joneses utility functions cannot generate this relationship unless one imposes the implausible assumption that the rich are more impatient than the nonrich. LÄS MER

7. 10. Inequality and Uneven Development in Ghana

   Författare :Prince Young Aboagye; Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen; []
   Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Cocoa; Inequality; Education; Expenditure; Fiscal Capacity; Taxation;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates the extent and evolution of income and educational inequality, as well as governments’ tax and expenditure policies and their implications for inequality in Ghana over the long-term. The results of the dissertation are presented in four-thematically related papers. LÄS MER