In: Metrika, 2012, vol. 75, no. 8, p. 1093-1110
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In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2013, vol. 38, no. 1, p. 33-53
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018ECO002.
The study of wage dynamics over time is more insightful than the analysis of point-in- time inequality measures. In policy-making, indeed, low wage careers instead of low- wage jobs should be at the center of the debate on long-term wage inequality. Many previous studies tried to estimate the degree of wage mobility within an economy; however, they rely on some quite restrictive assumptions....
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In: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014, vol. 406, p. 139–144
In social sciences, there is currently rare consensus on the underlying mechanism for cultural evolution, partially due to lack of suitable data. The evolution of first names of newborn babies offers a remarkable example for such researches. In this paper, we employ the historical data on baby names from the United States to investigate the evolutionary process of culture, in particular focusing...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2005 ; 2005ECO003.
This dissertation focuses on the economic inequality problem in Nepal, in particular, to integrate insights from other social aspects into the distribution problems of economic resources. It consists of five chapters on income and wealth distribution in Nepal. The first Chapter presents an overview of Nepal’s history, geography, economic development, policies and problems. The aim of Chapter...
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