Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Discipline
-
- Growth and Development (9)
- Labor Economics (6)
- Sociology (5)
- Business (4)
- International Economics (3)
-
- International and Area Studies (3)
- Macroeconomics (3)
- Political Economy (3)
- Political Science (3)
- Public Economics (3)
- Arts and Humanities (2)
- Demography, Population, and Ecology (2)
- Econometrics (2)
- Economic Policy (2)
- Economic Theory (2)
- Education (2)
- Emergency and Disaster Management (2)
- Family, Life Course, and Society (2)
- Psychology (2)
- Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration (2)
- Regional Economics (2)
- Social Welfare (2)
- Urban Studies (2)
- American Politics (1)
- Arts Management (1)
- Behavioral Economics (1)
- Communication (1)
- Institution
-
- Union College (4)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (3)
- Claremont Colleges (2)
- University of Arkansas, Fayetteville (2)
- City University of New York (CUNY) (1)
-
- Concordia University St. Paul (1)
- Portland State University (1)
- State University of New York College at Buffalo - Buffalo State College (1)
- The University of San Francisco (1)
- The University of Southern Mississippi (1)
- University of Kentucky (1)
- University of Louisville (1)
- Western University (1)
- Wilfrid Laurier University (1)
- Keyword
-
- Inequality (5)
- Human capital (2)
- Income gap (2)
- AIDS (1)
- Akhuwat (1)
-
- Argentina -- Economic conditions -- 1983- (1)
- Artisan (1)
- Asset ownership by gender (1)
- Autotext (1)
- Based (1)
- Bilateral collaboration (1)
- Brands (1)
- Brazil -- Economic conditions -- 1985- (1)
- Catastrophic out of pocket payments (1)
- Census Bureau (1)
- Collaborative governance (1)
- Consumers (1)
- Consumption (1)
- Credit constraints (1)
- Current Population Survey (1)
- Democracy -- Economic aspects -- Argentina (1)
- Democracy -- Economic aspects -- Brazil (1)
- Development (1)
- Disasters (1)
- Divorce (1)
- Earnings (1)
- Econometrics (1)
- Economic opportunity (1)
- Education (1)
- Education subsidies (1)
- Publication
-
- Honors Theses (4)
- Doctoral Dissertations (3)
- Economics Undergraduate Honors Theses (2)
- Applied Economics Theses (1)
- CMC Senior Theses (1)
-
- Dissertations (1)
- Dissertations and Theses (1)
- Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects (1)
- Electronic Theses and Dissertations (1)
- Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository (1)
- MA IDS Thesis Projects (1)
- MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects (1)
- Master's Theses (1)
- Scripps Senior Theses (1)
- Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive) (1)
Articles 1 - 21 of 21
Full-Text Articles in Income Distribution
An Empirical Study Of Earnings Of Immigrants And Native-Born Americans In The U.S. Labor Market Given Different Levels Of Educational Attainment, Yuli P. Gomez Bravo
An Empirical Study Of Earnings Of Immigrants And Native-Born Americans In The U.S. Labor Market Given Different Levels Of Educational Attainment, Yuli P. Gomez Bravo
Applied Economics Theses
This paper will compare the Lifetime wage earnings of immigrants and native-born citizens in the U.S. for the years 2000-2010 according to educational attainment using cross-sectional data. The data obtained through IPUMS-CPS Integrated Public Use of Microdata Series, University of Minnesota. The findings of investment in Human Capital of Mincer (1958), the Immigrants earnings distribution of Chiswick and Miller (2006), the Pareto’s law of income distribution, and the immigrants investment in human capital model by Duleep and Regets (1999) are the theoretical basis in which this study will be ruled. The empirical evidence suggests that immigrants who invest in education …
Three Essays On The Macroeconomic Impacts Of Rent Seeking, Kurt Von Seekamm
Three Essays On The Macroeconomic Impacts Of Rent Seeking, Kurt Von Seekamm
Doctoral Dissertations
Chapter 1 of this dissertation focuses on the political economy of rent seeking. Using trading in financial markets, patent litigation and managerial privilege as descriptive examples from the modern economy, it identifies situations where rent seeking opportunities occur. The challenge of correctly distinguishing between productive activities and rent seeking activities demonstrate the empirical challenges of examining rent seeking. This chapter also suggests that in addition to the opportunity cost of physical capital, modern rent seeking has a significant opportunity cost in the form of the misallocation of human capital. Chapter 2 explores the relationship between increased rent seeking, aggregate demand, …
Essays On Human Capital And Inequality, Youngmin Park
Essays On Human Capital And Inequality, Youngmin Park
Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository
This thesis conducts positive and normative analysis of inequality based on human capital theory. In Chapter 2, we document important differences in early child investments by family income and study four leading mechanisms thought to explain these gaps: intergenerational ability correlation, consumption value of investment, information frictions, and credit constraints. We evaluate whether these mechanisms are consistent with other stylized facts related to the marginal returns on investments and the effects of parental income on child investments and skills.
In Chapter 3, I study optimal higher education subsidies when parents’ willingness to pay for their children's education differs due to …
Democratization, Political Performance, And Income Distribution In Argentina And Brazil, Nicholas Paul Stowell
Democratization, Political Performance, And Income Distribution In Argentina And Brazil, Nicholas Paul Stowell
Dissertations and Theses
This research examines the effects of democratization and political performance on the functional distribution of income in Argentina and Brazil from the end of their authoritarian periods to the present. The existing literature tends to focus on the impacts of democratization and political performance on the economic growth of the country as a whole or on changes to per capita income. This analysis focuses on the equality of economic development in less developed countries because growth is not necessarily distributed equally and poverty and inequality are both endemic to many less developed countries and also negatively impact development as a …
Natural Disasters In Latin America: The Role Of Disaster Type And Productive Sector On The Urban-Rural Income Gap And Rural To Urban Migration, Madeline Alice Messick
Natural Disasters In Latin America: The Role Of Disaster Type And Productive Sector On The Urban-Rural Income Gap And Rural To Urban Migration, Madeline Alice Messick
Dissertations
This research provides insight into the impact of natural disasters as drivers of rural to urban migration in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Disasters of varying types are predicted to have differing impacts on the productive sectors of agriculture, industry, and services; which due to the concentration of the various productive sectors in either urban or rural areas, subsequently changes the urban-rural wage differential. Changes to the wage differential (as measured by the urban-rural income gap) are predicted to lead to movement between urban and rural areas until a new equilibrium wage is reached.
This dissertation first identifies a …
The Effects Of Globalization On An Emerging Economy: The Case Of South Africa, Oluwasheyi S. Oladipo
The Effects Of Globalization On An Emerging Economy: The Case Of South Africa, Oluwasheyi S. Oladipo
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation examines how globalization influences selected aspects of an emerging economy, using South Africa as a case study. The dissertation consists of three chapters: two microeconomic studies and one macroeconomic paper on the effects of globalization on some of the factors affecting economic growth. One micro paper explores the impacts of openness on inequality (Chapter 1), another investigates the impacts of trade liberalization on manufacturing sector wages (Chapter 2), and the macro study, which is the final chapter, examines the effects of inflation targeting on exchange rate pass through to domestic prices (Chapter 3).
In 1994, apartheid ended in …
Japanese Neet And Freeter: A Representation Of The Relationship Between Social Changes And Youth's Employment Pattern, Linh Hoang
Honors Theses
My paper attempts to analyze the existence of NEET (No Employment, Education or Training – ニート) and Freeter (Freelancing part-time worker - フリーター), two common groups of young unemployed people and irregular workers in Japan. Throughout the study, the relationship between Japanese social changes, modernization process and Japanese NEETs and Freeters is thoroughly examined. The first social change related to the establishment of these two groups is the transformation of employment system. The combination of a seniority-based system and performance-based system as well as their contrasts has increased the competitiveness in the job seeking war while eliminating some of the …
The Cult Of Cultural Consumption In The United States: How Class Stratification Shapes The Social Realms Of Consumer Brand Perception, Nelligan Rose Boff
The Cult Of Cultural Consumption In The United States: How Class Stratification Shapes The Social Realms Of Consumer Brand Perception, Nelligan Rose Boff
Honors Theses
An individual’s social position shapes taste culture as it pertains to fashion and branding. The purpose of this research is to develop more knowledge on who or what social factors are driving consumer’s perception of the brands they want, or don’t want to buy. The perspective of consumption seems to transcend self-interest alone and this thesis aims to analyze the extension of that transcendence. Brands are not merely relating to consumers through a relationship of functional need, but also interfere and are driven by social relationships between consumers. There is evidence that suggest that consumers might interact with brands that …
Made In America: The Affects Cognitive Load Consumer Ethnocentrism And Country Of Origin Have On Consumer Purchasing Decisions, Hannah Halstrom
Made In America: The Affects Cognitive Load Consumer Ethnocentrism And Country Of Origin Have On Consumer Purchasing Decisions, Hannah Halstrom
Honors Theses
Previous research suggests that cognitive load affects decision-making tasks. As well, a consumer varies his or her purchasing decisions based off of his or her personal level of Consumer Ethnocentrism (CE) and the Country of Origin (COO) of the product or brand. Eighty individuals participated in the study. Some participants were put under cognitive load by having remembering an 8 digit number span. All subjects were randomly exposed to one of two product sets, where COO was manipulated. Each product set consisted of 5 advertisements followed by a series of 4 questions. These questions regarded their willingness to purchase the …
Divorce Devastates: Do State Divorce Laws Have An Effect On Women's Economic Well-Being?, Ann Cantwell
Divorce Devastates: Do State Divorce Laws Have An Effect On Women's Economic Well-Being?, Ann Cantwell
Honors Theses
Divorce devastates a family, and with over 40% of first marriages ending in divorce in the United States, it is important to analyze the effect divorce has on each member of the family. This paper aims specifically at the economic effect of divorce on women, and furthermore, if the implementation of a no-fault divorce clause in state law has negatively impacted women’s wellbeing. Women’s well-being is determined by annual income divided by annual need. The study looks at three different state divorce laws surrounding fault—fault-based, no-fault as the only option, and no-fault as grounds for divorce—as well as variance due …
Evaluating Stolper-Samuelson: Trade Liberalization & Wage Inequality In India, Anthony M. Michael
Evaluating Stolper-Samuelson: Trade Liberalization & Wage Inequality In India, Anthony M. Michael
Master's Theses
This paper tests the predictions of the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem in India after it underwent major trade reform in 1991. Using industry level tariff data, the paper empirically examines trade liberalization’s effect on the wages of high-skilled labor relative to low skilled labor within firms. The study finds empirical evidence to support growing wage differentials within firms, which contradict the predictions of the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem. Additionally, when controlling for firm size and the effects of the global financial crisis, these results remain robust. Finally, the paper explores training and welfare and R&D’s effect on the wage differentials within firms, finding a …
Income Inequality In American Professional Sports Leagues, Joshua S. Thurman
Income Inequality In American Professional Sports Leagues, Joshua S. Thurman
Economics Undergraduate Honors Theses
Sports leagues provide an interesting window to view issues that larger economies face that are much harder to measure due to their complexity. These leagues have many policy tools similar to those used in major world economies such as minimum wage, price ceilings, labor unions, and revenue sharing, although the impact of these policies are much easier to measure in the closed economy model of a sports league because the income and output of every player in a given year is known. In this paper, I measure the level and trend of income inequality in the NBA, NFL, and MLB, …
Are Music Streaming Services Healthy For The Recorded Music Industry?, Elizabeth W. Pittman
Are Music Streaming Services Healthy For The Recorded Music Industry?, Elizabeth W. Pittman
Economics Undergraduate Honors Theses
To listen to music just a few hundred years ago would require hundreds of miles of travel, tons of wood and metal and ivory and copper strings, construction of a stage and audience platforms, human capital to perform the music of course, and lots of money. All of these variables would combine to produce an auditory experience of approximately 45 minutes total. Today, a single musician can produce the sound of dozens with just a laptop, and it can be consumed relatively cheaply with the click of a button. Digital services such as iTunes or Spotify give listeners access to …
Exchange Patterns And Relations In Collaborative Governance., Charles Wharton Kaye-Essien
Exchange Patterns And Relations In Collaborative Governance., Charles Wharton Kaye-Essien
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Collaborative governance has received considerable attention in recent years. From environmental resource management to public safety, collaborative governance continues to play a vital role in regional problem solving. In spite of this increasing popularity previous attempts to model the political, economic, and demographic determinants of collaboration have in most cases produced inconsistent results, thereby undermining the ability to generalize from such findings. Additionally, our understanding of the relational patterns that emanate from collaborative agreements remains fairly rudimentary. The main objective of this research is to address some of the gaps in the literature and improve our understanding of collaborative governance …
Essays On Household Health Expenditures, National Health Insurance And Universal Access To Health Care In Ghana, Evelyn Kwakye
Essays On Household Health Expenditures, National Health Insurance And Universal Access To Health Care In Ghana, Evelyn Kwakye
Doctoral Dissertations
Access to quality health services is essential for maintaining a healthy population and economic development hence the growing global consensus that universal health coverage is necessary. Ghana attempts to expand access by making basic health services free at the point of delivery through its National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS). Prior studies indicate NHIS increases demand for health services, but questions remain about its impact on out of pocket payments, quality of services, and the financial viability of the program. Hence, this dissertation analyzes the financial risk in health care seeking, the effect of NHIS on out of pocket payments and …
Three Essays On Women's Land Rights In Rural Peru, Rosa L. Duran
Three Essays On Women's Land Rights In Rural Peru, Rosa L. Duran
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation investigates the relationship between female land rights and cultural, policy, and regional variables, and asks to what degree, and in what ways, the highly contextual nature of the relationships between these variables have determined local-specific causes and effects of female land rights in Peru. This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay provides the socioeconomic and institutional context for the entire dissertation, introducing a brief historical account of the evolution of female land rights in Peru. This essay pays particular attention to the relationship between property rights and geographical context in the Peruvian countryside, examining the region-specific …
Trashé Designs: A Social Enterprise, Cara Walden
Trashé Designs: A Social Enterprise, Cara Walden
MA IDS Thesis Projects
During my years in graduate school, my understanding of economic inequality has further expanded. While my experience in the Peace Corps and Nepal allowed me to see it in real life, my time in school has allowed me to ground these experiences in academic literature. By means of an action research project, my goal is to create economic opportunity for the HIV/AIDS community in Chiang Mai, Thailand, through the creation of the social enterprise Trashé Designs. A social enterprise is a way to address a social challenge with a market-based solution. My social enterprise, Trashé Designs, uses recycled materials to …
Akhuwat: Potential For A Sustainable Islamic Interest Free Microfinance Model, Juliana S. Beall
Akhuwat: Potential For A Sustainable Islamic Interest Free Microfinance Model, Juliana S. Beall
Scripps Senior Theses
This study will examine if Akhuwat provides a sustainable Islamic interest-free Microfinance model for potential poverty alleviation. This question is particularly complicated for an organization that relies so heavily on subsidies. Theoretical debates of sustainability and the recognition of donations, cross-market comparisons, and data from audit reports will validate Akhuwat’s potential for long term sustainability. Analysis also highlights the discrepancies that plague this opaque industry.
Conditional Cash Transfers And Their Effect On Poverty, Inequality, And School Enrollment: The Case Of Mexico And Latin America, Maria Romano
CMC Senior Theses
Over the past two decades, conditional cash transfer (CCT) has become one of the most widespread approaches to social development in Latin America. Spurred in large part by the evident and immediate success of Mexico’s CCT initiative, a multitude of countries began to invest heavily in this strategy hoping to reduce poverty and inequality in the short and long run. This paper examines the relationship between CCT program breadth and poverty, inequality, and secondary school enrollment over a thirteen year span in order to determine whether or not programs with the largest coverage were the most efficient. This question is …
Social Justice And Worker Cooperatives, Gurveer Shaan Dhillon
Social Justice And Worker Cooperatives, Gurveer Shaan Dhillon
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Social Justice (SJ) is an organizing principle of contemporary community psychology (CP); however, the concept and understanding of social justice in community psychology is undertheorized and narrow. Specifically, the concept of distributive justice, which has been a popular notion of social justice in community psychology discourse, does not translate well into transformative action. In order to address this issue, the research uses a qualitative approach to explore the understanding of social justice from the perspectives of worker-members of 5 worker cooperatives in Ontario, with the aim to contribute to an understanding of SJ that has transformative implications. A worker cooperative …
An Examination Of Gender Income Gaps In And Out Of Government, Elisha Comer
An Examination Of Gender Income Gaps In And Out Of Government, Elisha Comer
MPA/MPP/MPFM Capstone Projects
No executive summary.