I denna studie har vi med ett kvantitativt tillvägagångsätt analyserat hur den självskattade hälsan hos en sjukdomspopulation förhåller sig till socioekonomiska faktorer, social kontext och de tre inkomsthypoteserna. De tre inkomsthypoteserna avser absolutinkomsthypotesen, relativinkomsthypotesen och inkomstskillnadshypotesen. Datamaterialet som ligger till grund för denna studie baseras på registerdata över cirka 7700 patienter över 18 år från Stockholms län som genomgått ryggkirurgi under åren 2006–2016. Den självskattade hälsan analyserades både vid inskrivningstillfället i samband med ryggkirurgi samt som förändringen i den självskattade hälsan från inskrivningstillfället till ett år efter operationen. Till vår vetskap har tidigare forskning inte i någon större utsträckning analyserat sambandet mellan socioekonomiska faktorer och förändringen i självskattad hälsa i samband med vårdinsats, vilket är en del av vårt forskningsbidrag. Resultaten indikerar att social kontext inte har ett statistiskt signifikant samband med förändringen i självskattad hälsa. Vid analys av den initiala hälsonivån finner vi dock tvetydiga resultat för inkomstskillnadshypotesen och relativinkomsthypotesen. Vi finner att absolutinkomsten har en positiv korrelation med den självskattade hälsan både vid inskrivningstillfället och vid förändringen. Vi finner även att universitetsutbildning har ett statiskt signifikant och positivt samband med förändringen i självskattad hälsa dock gäller inte detta för den självskattade hälsan vid inskrivningstillfället. Våra resultat indikerar även att vara född utanför Europa har en statistiskt signifikant negativ korrelation med den självskattade hälsan vid inskrivningstillfället samt vid förändringen i självskattad hälsa. Våra resultat ger en djupare förståelse för vilka faktorer som kan ligga till grund för skillnader i självskattad hälsa hos en sjukdomspopulation. Vidare ger studien underlag för utformning av policyrekommendationer som riktar sig mot en jämnare fördelning av hälsa i samhället genom implementering av tolk och individuellt anpassad information / In this study, we analyzed the correlation between differences in self-reported health, socioeconomic status, social context and the three income hypotheses. The three income hypotheses refer to the absolute income hypothesis, the relative income hypothesis and the income inequality hypothesis. The sample of our study consists of about 7700 individuals age 18 and above from Stockholm county who have gone through surgery due to back pain in the years 2006-2016. With a quantitative approach, we analyzed the correlations between socioeconomic status, social context and health at two times in conjunction to a health care input. To our knowledge has previous research not to a greater extent analyzed the connection between socioeconomic status and the change in health in connection to a health care input, which is part of the contribution of this study. The results indicate that social context does not have a statistically significant correlation with the change in health after a health care input, although we find ambiguous results for the income inequality hypothesis and the relative income hypothesis when analyzing the initial health status. We find that absolute income has a statistically significant and positive correlation with both the initial self-rated health and the change in self rated health over time. An education at university has a statistically significant and positive correlation with the change in self-rated health between the two-time periods, however we do not find this result for the initial health status. Our results indicate that to be born outside of Europe correlates negatively and statistically significant with the change in selfreported health and the initial health status. Our results give a deeper understanding and knowledge to which factors that could explain differences in health for a population with a defined disease. Furthermore, based on our results we give policy recommendations targeted at a more even distribution of health in Sweden through implementing the use of translators and individually customized information.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-08T14:44:56Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1425787 bytes, checksum: d94cd9ae653410b9a89cae6899ac08b2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-11 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work aimed to evaluate the contribution of wage income of women in household income and their impact on reducing income inequality in household income per capita in Brazil and in the macro-regions. The database used was the National Sample Survey (PNAD), in the period 2004-2012. To achieve this purpose will be used methodologies for decomposing the Gini index on elements of income proposed by Kakwani, Wagstaff and Doorslaer (1997), as well as the methodology of decomposition of the change in the Gini index, the effect of composition and concentration-effect developed by Hoffmann (2006) and Soares (2006), from the decomposition proposed by Shorrocks (1982). The methodology of Kakwani, Wagstaff and Doorslaer (1997) provides the standard errors, allowing the construction of confidence intervals, being feasible, therefore verify whether changes in inequality were either not statistically significant. The results show that while in the Southeast, South and Midwest the changes from 2004 to 2012 working on the components of man, public welfare and women's work, mainly on the issue of devolution of these budgets were greatly responsible for the fall of Brazilian inequality in the Northeast and North, the income of the Bolsa Família program played a crucial role, especially through - composition effect. Such findings reinforce the importance of economic policies aimed at decentralization of labor income, including income in the context of women's work, as this has a very significant share of income of the households and their dynamics reflects, more significantly, the trajectory towards a less unequal society in terms of monetary income. / Esta dissertação teve como objetivo avaliar a contribuição dos rendimentos salariais da mulher na renda domiciliar e o impacto desses rendimentos na redução da desigualdade da renda domiciliar per capita no Brasil e nas macrorregiões. A base de dados utilizada foi a da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD), no período de 2004 a 2012. Para atingir este objetivo, foram utilizadas as metodologias de decomposição do índice de Gini em parcelas do rendimento proposta por Kakwani, Wagstaff e Doorslaer (1997), assim como a metodologia de decomposição da mudança no índice de Gini por efeito-composição e efeito-concentração desenvolvida por Hoffmann (2006) e Soares (2006), a partir da decomposição proposta por Shorrocks (1982). A metodologia de Kakwani, Wagstaff e Doorslaer (1997) proporciona os erros-padrão, possibilitando a construção de intervalos de confiança, sendo exequível, consequentemente, verificar se as mudanças na desigualdade foram ou não estatisticamente significantes. Os resultados apontam que enquanto no Sudeste, Sul e Centro-Oeste as mudanças ocorridas de 2004 a 2012 nos componentes trabalho do homem, previdência pública e trabalho da mulher, principalmente na questão da desconcentração destas rendas, foram as grandes responsáveis pela queda da desigualdade brasileira, no Nordeste e no Norte, a renda do Programa Bolsa Família teve um papel crucial, principalmente através do efeito-composição. Tais achados reforçam a importância de políticas econômicas visando a desconcentração da renda proveniente do trabalho, incluindo no contexto a renda do trabalho da mulher, já que esta tem uma participação bastante significativa na renda dos domicílios e sua dinâmica reflete, de maneira expressiva, a trajetória rumo a uma sociedade menos desigual em termos de rendimentos monetários.

Cette thèse vise à explorer comment et de quelle manière la production domestique a un impact sur les choix des consommateurs qui, à son tour, détermine l'inégalité des revenus et la pauvreté en Turquie. L'objectif principal de cette thèse est d'examiner la nature de la décision d’allocation du temps en respectant la technologique de production domestique de chaque ménage. À cette fin, les hypothèses posées pour chaque chapitre sont progressivement testées afin de mieux saisir le profil des activités ménagères par des estimations micro-économétriques. Ainsi, l’objet de la thèse est de répondre à 5 questions : 1) Est-ce que le taux de salaire sur le marché est une bonne approximation du coût d’opportunité du temps dans les pays en voie de développement ? 2) Quelles sont les activités domestiques qui sont les moins sensibles à une variation du coût d’opportunité du temps qui accroît par substitution l’intensité en biens de la consommation ? 3) Quels sont les effets d’une variation du revenu et des prix lorsque l’on prend en compte la production domestique ? 4) Est-ce que les activités domestiques déterminent le secteur informel et jusqu’à quel degré ? 5) Est-ce que l’activité domestique et le secteur informel diminuent les inégalités de revenus et baissent le niveau de pauvreté dans l’économie ? La thèse apporte une contribution importante à une question qui se pose depuis longtemps dans les travaux de recherche sur les liens à faire entre le temps consacré au travail rémunéré et le temps qualifié de libre utilisé dans la production domestique. La théorie du consommateur doit en effet intégrer ces deux types de temps pour arriver à donner une vue d’ensemble des comportements en mettant en évidence le rôle de la production domestique. / The main focus of this dissertation is to examine the nature of time allocation decision with respect to domestic production technology pattern of each household in Turkey. Households’ main preference structure is defined under domestic production technology viewpoints. We measure the degree of complementarity and substitution for each consumption groups of the households. Therefore, our findings in this research highlights that the households resources are not only the function of market wage rates, as the opportunity cost of time, but also of the domestic production technology. However, demand elasticity measurement enables to identify the characteristics of decision-making of the households with regard to their domestic production technology. This measurement is highly important for political interventions. As a matter of fact, compensate of the loss, due to change in price or in income, in household’s welfare can be limited by domestic production technology. This finding underlines that the income and substitution effects as supposed by theory can be biased if domestic production technology is excluded from the model. The compensation of utility loss through inflation or decreasing purchasing power of the households may require good intensive domestic production for certain activities. However, this later points out a contradictory situation especially for developing countries. High level of working hours and constraints in labour markets may prevent households to compensate these lost thorough domestic activities. Thus, informal earnings appear to be the only solution to overcome shortages in time use and commodity used in domestic production. Lack of necessary goods and services with limited time allocation capacity inevitably yields increasing under reported incomes for these economies. Thus, the participation in informal activities rescue from income shortage for given labour supply which in turns reallocates income distributions and poverty within the society.

Esta dissertação analisou a divisão social do espaço residencial intra-urbano a partir da sua relação com a desigualdade de renda. Utilizou-se como caso de estudo a cidade de Porto Alegre no período 1991-2000. A segmentação do espaço residencial urbano envolve a distribuição desigual dos poderes e direitos sobre a localização das moradias nas cidades, o que gera consequências significativas e duradouras nas características do tecido urbano, na formação de preços dos imóveis e no encontro entre grupos socialmente distintos. Duas hipóteses foram consideradas no presente estudo: a primeira hipótese associa a concentração de renda no espaço urbano à polarização socioespacial das áreas residenciais, nesta leitura os espaços residenciais estariam sofrendo um processo de homogeneização de renda combinado à redução dos espaços de classe média, esta hipótese aponta para a emergência de uma cidade dualizada entre ricos e pobres; a segunda hipótese associa a concentração de renda no espaço urbano ao aumento da seletividade e à fragmentação espacial das áreas residências dos estratos mais ricos, simultaneamente estaria ocorrendo o aumento da heterogeneidade dos espaços residenciais de classe média e dos pobres. Utilizou-se a variável renda do responsável por domicílio extraída do banco de dados dos Censos Demográficos de 1991 e 2000. O nível de desagregação da variável utilizada foi o setor censitário. As medidas de desigualdade de renda e de seletividade residencial utilizadas foram: índice de Gini, curva de Lorenz, renda relativa, curva de segregação, índice de dissimilaridade, índice de correlação espacial e análise de cartogramas. Os resultados encontrados apontam para a convergência das duas hipóteses. Por um lado, o espaço residencial dos mais ricos se tornou muito mais homogêneo, mas por outro lado, essas áreas estão relativamente mais concentradas no tecido urbano, demonstrando que a valorização territorial na década de 90 ocorreu principalmente nas adjacências de áreas que já eram ocupadas pelos mais ricos no início do período. Verificou-se também um relativo aumento da heterogeneidade do espaço da classe média e dos pobres, combinado à redução no percentual de domicílios nos espaços de classe média. Os resultados apontam para o aumento de domicílios nos espaços dos estratos superiores e inferiores de renda, o que sinaliza para uma polarização socioespacial. Conclui-se que a cidade de Porto Alegre se tornou mais desigual espacial e economicamente no período analisado. / This study examined the social division of intra-urban residential space from its relationship with income inequality. It was used as a case study the city of Porto Alegre in the period 1991-2000. The segmentation of urban residential space involves the unequal distribution of powers and rights on the location of housing units, which generates significant consequences on the spatial configuration, the pricing of real estate and in the encounter between different social groups. Two hypotheses were considered in this study: in the first hypothesis income inequality is associated with polarization of the residential areas, residential spaces in this reading would be undergoing a process of homogenization of income combined with the reduction of spaces for the middle class, this hypothesis points to the emergence of a dualized city between rich and poor; the second hypothesis associates the concentration of income in urban areas to increase the selectivity and the spatial fragmentation of the residential areas of the richest people, while there would be an increased heterogeneity of spaces middle class and poor people. We used the variable income per head of household extracted from the database of the population censuses of 1991 and 2000. The level of disaggregation of the variable used was the census sector. The measures of income inequality and residential selectivity were used: the Gini index, Lorenz curve, relative income, curve segregation, dissimilarity index, index of spatial correlation and analysis of maps. The results point to the convergence of two hypotheses. On the one hand, the richest of residential space has become much more homogeneous, but on the other hand, these areas are relatively more concentrated in the city, demonstrating that the recovery in the 90 territorial mainly occurred in the vicinity of areas that were already occupied by the rich at the beginning of the period. There was also a relative increase of the heterogeneity of the middle class and poor people, combined with the reduction in the percentage of households in the spaces of the middle class and increase in space from the upper and lower income, which points to a socio-spatial polarization. It is concluded that the city of Porto Alegre has become increasingly unequal spatial and economically in this period.

This thesis is a collection of three independent essays in empirical political economics. The first chapter investigates if the presence of appointed mayors in a subset of municipalities during the Brazilian dictatorship led to elite capture. This is done comparing measures of inequality after redemocratization between municipalities that had appointed mayors with municipalities where mayors were elected directly. The main results are consistent with the hypothesis of elite capture and indicate income inequality increased more in municipalities that had mayors appointed by the regime. The second chapter investigates the extent to which media vehicles are prone to political capture in the context of the Brazilian dictatorship. This is done by investigating the effects of Rede Globo, the main Brazilian television station, on electoral outcomes of mayoral elections during the Brazilian dictatorship, mainly on the share of votes obtained by ARENA, the ruling party during the dictatorship. The main effects documented in this chapter show that during the first years of the military dictatorship, Globo has a positive effect on ARENA\'s vote-share. In the latter years, however, the effect becomes negative and, on average, overlaps the positive result. It is provided evidence that this break in the effect of Globo is associated with a change in the company\'s position towards the regime and in the content of the shows broadcast by Globo. The third chapter investigates if teachers with strong partisan stances are capable of influencing electoral outcomes through shaping their students\' voting behavior. This is done by exploiting unique datasets on party-affiliated voters, on public high school teachers and on election results and voter characteristics in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. The main findings of this chapter are suggestive of a positive and significant effect of the presence of affiliated teachers on the electoral performance of the corresponding party, especially in elections based on plurality voting systems. / Esta tese é composta por três ensaios empíricos em economia política. O primeiro capítulo investiga se a presença de prefeitos nomeados em um subconjunto de municípios durante a ditadura brasileira levou à captura por parte da elite. Isso é feito comparando medidas de desigualdade após a redemocratização entre municípios que tiveram prefeitos nomeados e municípios onde os prefeitos foram eleitos democraticamente. Os principais resultados deste capítulo são consistentes com a hipótese de captura e indicam que a desigualdade de renda aumentou mais em municípios que tiveram prefeitos nomeados pelo regime e que isso se deve principalmente a um aumento na parcela de rendimentos auferidos pelos mais ricos. O segundo capítulo investiga em que medida os veículos de comunicação são propensos a captura política no contexto da ditadura brasileira. Isso é feito investigando os efeitos da Rede Globo, a principal emissora de televisão brasileira, sobre os resultados eleitorais das eleições para prefeito durante a ditadura brasileira, especialmente sobre o percentual de votos obtido pela ARENA, o partido de situação durante a ditadura militar. Os principais efeitos mostram que durante os primeiros anos da ditadura, a Globo tem um efeito positivo sobre o percentual de votos obtidos pela ARENA. Nos últimos anos, no entanto, o efeito torna-se negativo e, em média, sobrepõe-se o resultado positivo dos primeiros anos. São fornecidas evidências de que esta quebra no efeito da Globo está associado a uma mudança na posição da empresa em relação ao regime e no conteúdo dos programas transmitidos por ela. O terceiro capítulo investiga se professores com fortes posições partidárias são capazes de interferir nos resultados eleitorais a partir de influência exercida sobre o voto dos seus alunos. Para isso são utilizados dados sobre filiação partidária de eleitores, sobre professores das escolas públicas e sobre resultados eleitorais e características dos eleitores no Estado de São Paulo, Brasil. As principais conclusões deste capítulo sugerem um efeito positivo e significativo da presença de professores filiados sobre o desempenho eleitoral do partido correspondente, especialmente em eleições majoritárias.

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本篇文章的目的為，在一個含有銀行信用管道以及兩種家計單位設定的動態隨機一般均衡模型的架構之中，探討中央銀行實施貨幣政策以及技術面衝擊對於貧富不均度的影響。本篇文章主要依據Kumhof, Rancière and Winant (2015)對於兩種家計單位之設定，參考Benigo and Eggertsson (2016)加入銀行信用管道，並參考Lansing and Markiewicz (2016)將勞動內生化以及刻劃收入來源之不同，因而建構出一個封閉經濟體系，內含兩種不同的家計單位、商品生產部門、銀行信用管道、政府之課稅政策以及中央銀行之貨幣政策。本文發現，貧富不均度在面對中央銀行實施緊縮性貨幣政策以及技術面正向衝擊時會暫時性地擴大，在長期時會回到初始的靜態均衡值。 / The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the effect of monetary policy on income inequality using a micro-based dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with credit channel and two groups of households. Following Kumhof, Rancière and Winant (2015), households can be divided into two groups; moreover, we follow Benigo and Eggertsson (2016) to add the credit channel, and follow Lansing and Markiewicz (2016) to make households supply labor endogenously and characterize the difference of income source. Therefore, we build up a closed economy model with two groups of households, goods firms, credit channel, the taxation policy implemented by government and monetary policy implemented by central bank. We find that contractionary monetary policy and positive technology shock will temporarily generate a worse income inequality. In the long term, the economy will be back to the initial steady state.

This thesis examines the impact of the technological change on the income inequality in the United States of America. This is done by integrating theoretical and analytical findings about the channels through which technological change affects income inequality.The research is based on century-long income inequality data sets. However, it prioritizes the study of the income inequality in the years between 1970s and 2010s, as this period marks the kick off of the IT technologies and the globalization in the USA. Furthermore it includes an analysis of the role of globalization on the income inequality in the USA. It also accounts for the rest of the inequality triggers that are resulting from the political and economic structure of the country. Lastly it gives a prediction about the future state of the U.S. labor market and wages given the impact of the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

This thesis is concerned with different incomes of men and women in the professional category of scientists and intellectual workers and aims to describe the reasons and the degree of income inequality between men and women in this category and in the conditions of the Czech Republic. The theoretical resources of the thesis are a compilation of facts and opinions of the authors and scientists who are engaged in the area of (gender) income inequality. The chapters gradually reveal the state of gender inequality in selected regions of the world - the U.S.A, Asia and Europe, including the legislative framework. The following chapter is based on available statistical information reflects the situation in the Czech Republic. The theoretical part ends with a description of the indicators of income inequality. Practical part of this thesis works with SILC2009 data for the category of scientific and intellectual workers in terms of dependent variables affecting the amount of income for both sexes and compares the results against each other. For complete the overall view on the topic of gender income inequality was made research of respondents' awareness of the issue

The objective of this study was to examine if intra-racial income inequality contributes to higher infant mortality rates (IMRs) for African-Americans. The conceptual framework for this study is derived from Richard Wilkinson's psychosocial environment interpretation of the income inequality and health link. The hypotheses examined were that race/ethnicity-specific IMRs are influenced by intra-race/ethnicity income inequality, and that these effects of income inequality on health are mediated by level of social mistrust and/or risk profile of the mother. Using state-level data from several sources, the 2000 National Center for Health Statistics Linked Birth Infant Death database, 2000 U.S. Census, and 2000 General Social Survey, a number of regression equations were estimated. Results indicated that the level of intra-racial/ethnic income inequality is a significant predictor of non-Hispanic Black IMRs, but not the IMRs of non-Hispanic Whites or Hispanics. Additionally, among Blacks, the effect of their intra-racial income inequality on their IMRs was found to be mediated by the risk profile of the mother, namely, the increased likelihood of smoking and/or drinking and/or less prenatal care by Black women during pregnancy. Implications of the findings are discussed.