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Wealth, inequality and political culture in the cities of Roman Asia Minor, first to third centuries CE Ghent University
In Roman imperial Asia Minor, urban elites first appear to have grown steadily wealthier and to have broadened during the first and much of the second century CE, then stopped growing richer and seem to have shrunk again in the third. Alongside the elites, urban professional middling groups first grew more prosperous, then mostly seem to disappear from view during the later third century. At the same time, we can discern a profound shift in ...
Real Property, Speculation and Housing Inequality. Bruges 1550-1670 Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Literature on wealth inequality attributes a significant role to housing, but how exactly demand and supply on the housing market itself triggered inequality is less clear. Bruges is an interesting case in which to study these phenomena since economic change and high inflation undermined the purchasing power of the working classes and forced them to switch from owned to rented houses. Here, income inequality caused housing inequality. When the ...
Buy flexible, pay more : the role of temporary contracts on wage inequality Ghent University
We investigate the role of temporary contracts in shaping wage inequality in a dual labour market. Based on Italian individual-level administrative data, our analysis focuses on new hires in temporary and open-ended contracts for the period of 2005-2015. To estimate the presence of differentials over the daily wage distribution, we follow Firpo (2007) and implement an inverse probability estimator, which allows us to control for labour market ...
Decreasing income inequality and adolescent emotional distress : a population-based case study of Icelandic adolescents 2006-2016 Ghent University
A Lyapunov-type inequality for a fractional boundary value problem with Caputo-Fabrizio derivative Ghent University
Social inequality in attitudes and behavior : the implications of the Flemish tracking system for equity Ghent University
Resource rents distribution, income inequality and poverty in Iran Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and subsequent taxation in Iran. We use survey-based microdata that covers 140,000 individuals, which include more than 36,000 Iranian urban and rural households in 2009. We examine how direct distribution of oil and gas rents among all citizens and a subsequent direct income tax differ from distributional impacts of targeted policies on ...