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Title:Inelastic buyers and competition Author(s):CALZOLARI, Giacomo

; MANARESI, Francesco; NELLAS, VikiDate:2018Citation:The economic journal, 2018, Vol. 128, No. 615, pp. 2843-2875Type:ArticleAbstract:We measure precisely how competition limits the capacity of sellers to appropriate surplus from less elastic consumers. The evidence originates from pricing strategies of Italian pharmacists in response to exogenous inflows ...

Title:Inequalities Author(s):MORLINO, Leonardo; WAGEMANN, Claudius

; RANIOLO, FrancescoDate:2020Citation:Leonardo MORLINO (ed.), Equality, freedom, and democracy : Europe after the Great Recession, Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020, pp. 23-59Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Equality is a multidimensional concept. As regards economic aspects, there is a trend towards more inequality in most countries. Italy and Spain perform worse than the other countries, while France and Germany do better. ...

Title:Inequalities by immigrant status in unmet needs for healthcare in Europe : the role of origin, nationality and economic resources Author(s):GUIDI, Caterina Francesca

; PALÈNCIA, Laia; FERRINI, Silvia; MALMUSI, DavideDate:2016Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI RSCAS; 2016/55; Global Governance Programme-237; Cultural PluralismAbstract:The aim of the research is to assess whether there are inequalities in unmet needs for healthcare between natives and migrants within Europe. We used cross-sectional data from the European Statistics on Income and Living ...

Title:Inequalities in democratic outcomes among young citizens : the role of access to and participation in democratic activities in school in 15 countries Author(s):MENNES, Hester Ina; MUNNIKSMA, Anke; DIJKSTRA, Anne Bert; VAN DE WERFHORST, Herman G.

Date:2023Citation:Acta politica, 2023, OnlineFirstType:ArticleAbstract:Across countries, social inequalities exist in citizens’ democratic engagement. One potential channel through which these gaps are formed concerns schools, yet little research has yet considered the relation between schools’ ...

Title:Inequalities in income and education are associated with survival differences after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest : nationwide observational study Author(s):JONSSON, Martin; HARKONEN, Juho

; LJUNGMAN, Petter; NORDBERG, Per; RINGH, Mattias; HIRLEKAR, Geir; RAWSHANI, Araz; HERLITZ, Johan; LJUNG, Rickard; HOLLENBERG, JacobDate:2021Citation:Circulation, 2021, Vol. 144, No. 24, pp. 1915-1925Type:ArticleAbstract:Background: Despite the acknowledged importance of socioeconomic factors as regards cardiovascular disease onset and survival, the relationship between individual-level socioeconomic factors and survival after out-of-hospital ...

Title:Inequality and uncertainty : the roots of the European identity crisis Author(s):SCALISE, Gemma

Date:2019Citation:Laura LEONARDI and Gemma SCALISE (eds), Social challenges for Europe : addressing failures and perspectives of the European project, Bologna : Il Mulino, 2019, Fuori collana, pp. 111-125Type:Contribution to book

Title:Inequality at the border : how visa costs penalize citizens of poor world regions Author(s):RECCHI, Ettore

; DEUTSCHMANN, Emanuel

Date:2020Type:OtherSeries/Number:Migration Policy Centre; Blogpost; 2020; Debate MigrationAbstract:The Covid-19 pandemic has made everybody aware that individual mobility is a major engine of social life but, at the same time, it is also politically channelled and limited. One after another, governments have shuttered ...

Title:Inequality Aversion and Stochastic Decision-making: Experimental Evidence from Zimbabwean Villages after Land Reform Author(s):KOHLER, StefanDate:2008Citation:Alessandro INNOCENTI and Patrizia SBRIGLIA (eds), Games, Rationality and Behavior: Essays on Behavioral Game Theory and Experiments, Houndmills/Basingstoke/Hampshire, Palgrave McMillan, 2008, 65-100Version:The chapter is a revised version of Global Poverty Research Group Working Paper 2006/61Type:Contribution to bookAbstract:Inequality considerations are a motive for making positive offers in the Ultimatum Game and rejecting small ones, but decision error could have the same effect. I find evidence for both of these considerations and a different ...

Title:Inequality Aversion and Stochastic Decision-making: Experimental Evidence from Zimbabwean Villages after Land Reform Author(s):KOHLER, StefanDate:2007Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:GPRG Working Paper; 2006/61Abstract:Inequality considerations are a motive for making positive offers in the Ultimatum Game and rejecting small ones, but decision error could have the same effect. I find evidence for both of these considerations and a ...

Title:Inequality aversion causes equal or unequal division in alternating-offer bargaining Author(s):KOHLER, Stefan; SCHLAG, Karl H.Date:2019Citation:Bulletin of economic research, 2019, Vol. 71, No. 1, pp. 47-57Type:ArticleAbstract:A solution to Rubinstein (1982)'s open‐ended, alternating‐offer bargaining problem for two equally patient bargainers who exhibit similar degrees of inequality aversion is presented. Inequality‐averse bargainers may ...

Title:Inequality Constraints in Recursive Economies Author(s):RENDAHL, PontusDate:2006Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 2006/6Abstract:Dynamic models with inequality constraints pose a challenging prob- lem for two major reasons: Dynamic Programming techniques often necessitate a non established differentiability of the value function, while Euler ...

Title:Inequality decomposition without income or expenditure data : using an asset index to simulate household income Author(s):HARTTGEN, Kenneth; VOLLMER, SebastianDate:2011Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:Human Development (HDRP); Research Paper; 2011/13Abstract:Commonly available survey data for developing countries often do not include income or expenditure data. This data limitation puts severe constraints on standard poverty and inequality analyses. We provide a simple approach ...

Title:Inequality in Access to Political Action : Determinants of political membership and protest in Western Europe Author(s):FERRER-FONS, MarionaDate:2005Citation:Florence : European University Institute, 2005Type:ThesisSeries/Number:EUI; SPS; PhD Thesis

Title:Inequality in human development : an empirical assessment of 32 countries Author(s):GRIMM, Michael; HARTTGEN, Kenneth; KLASEN, Stephan; MISSELHORN, Mark; MUNZI, Teresa; SMEEDING, TimothyDate:2010Citation:Social indicators research, 2010, Vol. 97, No. 2, pp. 191-211Type:ArticleAbstract:One of the most frequent critiques of the HDI is that is does not take into account inequality within countries in its three dimensions. In this paper, we apply a simply approach to compute the three components and the ...

Title:Inequality of educational opportunity in Italy : how fair is the '3+2' reform? Author(s):BRUNORI, Paolo

; PERAGINE, Vito; SERLENGA, LauraDate:2011Citation:Giornale degli economisti e annali di economia : nuova serie, 2011, Vol. 70, No. 1, pp. 65-95Type:ArticleAbstract:In this paper we propose a definition of fairness in education which is based on the theory of equality of opportunity developed in the last decades in the philosophical and economic literature (Roemer,1998; Fleurbaey, ...

Title:Inequality of opportunity, inequality of effort, and innovation Author(s):SPIGANTI, Alessandro

Date:2020Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI MWP; 2020/02Abstract:Is inequality good or bad for innovation? I study an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents; due to credit frictions, inequalities in wealth lead to misallocation of talent. A more unequal reward scheme incentivises ...

Title:Inequality of Origin and Earnings Prospect in France, 1977-1993 Author(s):LEFRANC, Arnaud; PISTOLESI, Nicolas; TRANNOY, AlainDate:2007Citation:Revue D Economie Politique, 2007, 117, 1, 91-117Type:ArticleAbstract:To analyze equality of opportunity we examine the influence of family characteristics on the distribution of outcome for a given generation. Here, we study changes in equality of opportunity for income acquisition between ...

Title:Inequality, economic growth and the debt crisis Author(s):WALDMANN, RobertDate:1994Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 1994/40

Title:Inequity aversion revisited Author(s):YANG, Yang; ONDERSTAL, Sander; SCHRAM, Arthur

Date:2016Citation:Journal of economic psychology, 2016, Vol. 54, pp. 1-16Type:ArticleAbstract:Using a laboratory experiment, we study the predictive power of the Fehr–Schmidt (1999) model of inequity aversion and its robustness to reciprocity and stakes. We find stronger evidence for the model’s predictive power ...

Title:The infant mortality rate is higher where the rich are richer Author(s):WALDMANN, RobertDate:1995Type:Working PaperSeries/Number:EUI ECO; 1995/23