Human capital and the reduction of inequalities: an intra-national analysis in Italy

Odoardi, Iacopo; D’Ingiullo, Dario; Furia, Donatella

doi:10.1080/00036846.2020.1788708

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“…Meanwhile, the human resources variable is found to have a negative but insignificant effect on income inequality. These findings differ from Kavya and Shinjin (2020), Odoardi et al (2020), andSuhendra et al (2020). It indicates that the development of human resources is believed to be a long-term investment is not a solution in reducing inequality in Indonesia.…”

Section: Long Run Estimationcontrasting

confidence: 70%

“…Further research conducted by Odoardi et al (2020) in Italy used the technique of two-stage least square (2SLS). Indicators used are human resources, unemployment, and economic growth from 2004-2016.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Some of developing countries are Indonesia (Suhendra et al, 2020), India (Sehrawat and Singh, 2019), Vietnam (Ha et al, 2019), Brazil (Vincens and Stafström, 2015), Iran (Shahpari and Davoudi, 2014), and Afrika Selatan (Tregenna, 2011). In comparison, the examples of developed countries are Europe, including Italy (Odoardi et al, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Investigating the Income Inequality in Indonesia: An Application of Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach

Nazli

Jamal

Nasir

2021

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This study investigates the effect of economic growth, urban population, unemployment, and human capital on income inequality in Indonesia. Annual data collected from World Development Indicator (WDI) is used from 1984 to 2019. The analytical method of this research is Autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) to examine the short and long-term relationships. The results show that economic growth positively and significantly affects income inequality in the short and long term. The urban population variable has a significant negative effect in the short term but not in the long term. The unemployment variable has a significant positive effect in the long run. Finally, human capital negatively affects the short term while not in the long term. Based on these findings, it is recommended that the government stabilize inequality by increasing progressive taxes, creating jobs, providing soft skills training beyond formal education, and socializing the concept of commuter work.

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Section: Long Run Estimationcontrasting

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Investigating the Income Inequality in Indonesia: An Application of Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach

Nazli

Jamal

Nasir

2021

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“…Inequality occurs not only at the global level but also at the intranational level. Many researchers examined economic and educational inequalities between citizens of a nation ( Hoover, 1989 ; Odoardi et al, 2020 ). Moreover, an increasing number of studies outlined unequal climate change causation and distribution of climate change impacts at the national level ( Rao, 2014 ; Oswald et al, 2020 ).…”

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Give Up Flights? Psychological Predictors of Intentions and Policy Support to Reduce Air Travel

2022

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Concerted, timely action for mitigating climate change is of uttermost importance to keep global warming as close to 1.5°C as possible. Air traffic already plays a strong role in driving climate change and is projected to grow—with only limited technical potential for decarbonizing this means of transport. Therefore, it is desirable to minimize the expansion of air traffic or even facilitate a reduction in affluent countries. Effective policies and behavioral change, especially among frequent flyers, can help to lower greenhouse gas emissions. For both, a positive evaluation and public support is indispensable. This study contributes to understanding air travel behavior and the perception of regulative policies. We examined the role of attitudes, perceived behavioral control, efficacy, global identity, and justice concerns for intentions to avoid flights and aviation-related environmental policy support. We conducted an online survey study with a quota sample of N = 2,530 participants in Germany. The strongest positive predictors of intentions to refrain from flying and policy support were perceived behavioral control to travel without flying, efficacy beliefs that avoiding air travel contributes to climate change mitigation, and intergenerational justice concerns; pro-travel attitude was a negative predictor. Moreover, we tested whether the provision of additional information on climate impact, global and intranational inequalities as well as subsidies (implying intranational inequality) affected the intention to avoid air travel and policy support. We found no effects of the different types of information. Nor did we find an interaction between the type of information provided and global or national identity. Our results highlight the need for a shift within the mobility sector that facilitates attractive and accessible transport alternatives in order to strengthen people’s behavioral control to choose other means than planes and their efficacy perceptions. Moreover, raising awareness of the impacts of climate change on future generations and developing strategies to promote people’s concern for intergenerational justice might motivate people to reduce air travel and thereby contribute to a livable future for new generations.

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“…Earlier studies, Behrman (1987), Behrman et al (2017) and Birdall and Meesook (1986) for instance, are of the view that higher levels of educational attainment and income of parents tend to lessen future incidences of poverty and inequality. While the magnitude of such effects remains unquantifiable (e.g., see Behrman, 1987; Behrman et al, 2017; Birdall & Meesook, 1986; Odoardi et al, 2020; Sehrawat & Kumar, 2019), the debate also continues in the literature as to whether ITP is universally valid or is a fallacy (see Aldaz‐Carroll, 1999; Backer & Lewis, 1973; Levy, 2006; Molina et al, 2011; Patrinos, 1998). The conjecture, moreover, is that universally true or not, ITP hampers growth prospects of countries and may even exacerbate the lack of social cohesion and equality of opportunities—additional threats to the success of governmental economic reform efforts in low‐income countries.…”

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Is the intergenerational transmission of poverty a fallacy? Evidence from Botswana survey data

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Tchankam

Akinkugbe

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J of Intl Development

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The literature on intergenerational transmission of poverty—ITP—suggests that higher income levels and improved educational attainment of parents tend to impact on children's future welfare. This paper tests the ITP proposition, in the framework of the quantity–quality model, using the 2015/16 Botswana Multiple Topic Indicator Survey data. Results reveal that the ITP assumption is strongly valid—the probability of attaining secondary education by an adolescent—proxy for escaping the poverty trap—is determined by family socio‐economic characteristics. That is, while welfare improvements among current adults are desirable, they could also be impactful on children's tendency to or not escape the poverty trap.

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Human capital and the reduction of inequalities: an intra-national analysis in Italy

Cited by 8 publications

References 75 publications

Investigating the Income Inequality in Indonesia: An Application of Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach

Investigating the Income Inequality in Indonesia: An Application of Autoregressive Distributed Lag Approach

Give Up Flights? Psychological Predictors of Intentions and Policy Support to Reduce Air Travel

Is the intergenerational transmission of poverty a fallacy? Evidence from Botswana survey data

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