Income Inequality among Female Heads of Households: Racial Inequality Reconsidered

Zandvakili, Sourushe

doi:10.1111/1468-0335.00159

“…The Kuznets Curve has been tested empirically over the years, repeatedly suggesting that there exists an inverted U-shape relationship between economic development and inequality (Rossi et al 2001;Mollick 2012). Furthermore, Zandvakili (1999) deserves special attention in this context. He examined not only the potential determinants of income inequality measured with generalized entropy but also decomposed the inequality into within-and between-group measures.…”

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“…In fact, there are papers that have analyzed the impact of economic downturns on income inequality (see Hoover et al 2009), but they do not incorporate race into their analysis. Yet, there are other papers that analyze the determinants of the racial and ethnic groups' inequalities, such as Zandvakili (1999), Orrenius and Zavodny (2013), or Yaya (2010, 2011), but these papers did not specifically examine the economic downturns. Consequently, the literature truly lacks a comprehensive analysis of the intersection of race, income inequality, and recessions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Average state income can be used as a proxy for economic development as presented in Kuznets Curve which argues that states with higher income should have higher income inequality up to a threshold income level. Age has also been used as a determinant of inequality as in the works of Aigner and Heins (1967), Zandvakili (1999), and Yaya (2010, 2011). States with older populations are expected to have equally distributed income due to skill rigidity, as proposed by Aigner and Heins (1967).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Several major changes in educational policies have occurred in Spain over the last four decades. One of these is the re-organization of the educational system beginning in 1970. A policy to encourage the regional spread of universities was pursued over the seventies and eighties. There has also been devolution of power to some regions with respect to the management of the educational system. These policy changes are hypothesized to have resulted in an impact on inter-regional and intra-regional inequality with respect to educational facilities. We investigate the change in inequality that occurred between the 60s and the70s, and also between the 80s and early 90s. JEL classification: I2, R5

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Income Inequality among Female Heads of Households: Racial Inequality Reconsidered

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Great Recession and Income Inequality: a State-level Analysis

Great Recession and Income Inequality: a State-level Analysis

Multi-dimensional analysis of regional inequality: The case of higher educational facilities in Spain

Multi‐dimensional analysis of regional inequality: The case of higher educational facilities in Spain

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