Inequality And Uncertainty

Author : Marta Smagacz-Poziemska,M. Victoria Gómez,Patrícia Pereira,Laura Guarino,Sebastian Kurtenbach,Juan José Villalón
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813291621

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Inequality and Uncertainty by Marta Smagacz-Poziemska,M. Victoria Gómez,Patrícia Pereira,Laura Guarino,Sebastian Kurtenbach,Juan José Villalón Pdf

It is not possible to ignore the fact that cities are not only moving, vibrant and flourishing spaces, promising hope for better quality of life, but that they also accumulate and reflect significant problems. This book explores the relational and dynamic nature of urban inequalities, including their visible and invisible forms. By using the rather elusive term of ‘uncertainty’, the authors zoom in on specific aspects of urban inequalities that are difficult to measure, yet are acutely sensed and experienced by people and, more and more often, perceived as unfair. Here, in the recognition of inequalities as unjust and in the disagreement with the status quo, lies a positive aspect of uncertainty, which can lead to a social awakening and more active citizenship.

Author : Stephen Poloz
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780735243910

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The Next Age of Uncertainty by Stephen Poloz Pdf

*WINNER OF THE 2023 NATIONAL BUSINESS BOOK AWARD* *FINALIST FOR THE 2023 OTTAWA BOOK AWARD* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE SHAUGHNESSY COHEN PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DONNER PRIZE* NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the former Governor of the Bank of Canada, a far-seeing guide to the powerful economic forces that will shape the decades ahead. The economic ground is shifting beneath our feet. The world is becoming more volatile, and people are understandably worried about their financial futures. In this urgent and accessible guide to the crises and opportunities that lie ahead, economist and former Governor of the Bank of Canada Stephen Poloz maps out the powerful tectonic forces that are shaping our future, and the ideas that will allow us to master them. These forces include an aging workforce, mounting debt, and rising income inequality. Technological advances, too, are adding to the pressure, putting people out of work, and climate change is forcing a transition to a lower-carbon economy. It is no surprise that people are feeling uncertain. The implications of these tectonic tensions will cascade throughout every dimension of our lives—the job market, the housing market, the investment climate, as well as government and central bank policy, and the role of the corporation within society. The pandemic has added momentum to many of them. Poloz skillfully argues that past crises, from the Victorian Depression in the late 1800s to the more recent downturn in 2008, give a hint of what is in store for us in the decades ahead. Unlike the purely destructive power of earthquakes, the upheaval that is sure to come in the decades ahead will offer unexpected opportunities for renewal and growth. Filled with takeaways for employers, investors, and policymakers, as well as families discussing jobs and mortgage renewals around the kitchen table, The Next Age of Uncertainty is an indispensable guide for those navigating the fault lines of the risky world ahead.

Author : Michael T. Todinov
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000076448

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Risk and Uncertainty Reduction by Using Algebraic Inequalities by Michael T. Todinov Pdf

This book covers the application of algebraic inequalities for reliability improvement and for uncertainty and risk reduction. It equips readers with powerful domain-independent methods for reducing risk based on algebraic inequalities and demonstrates the significant benefits derived from the application for risk and uncertainty reduction. Algebraic inequalities: • Provide a powerful reliability improvement, risk and uncertainty reduction method that transcends engineering and can be applied in various domains of human activity • Present an effective tool for dealing with deep uncertainty related to key reliability-critical parameters of systems and processes • Permit meaningful interpretations which link abstract inequalities with the real world • Offer a tool for determining tight bounds for the variation of risk-critical parameters and complying the design with these bounds to avoid failure • Allow optimising designs and processes by minimising the deviation of critical output parameters from their specified values and maximising their performance This book is primarily for engineering professionals and academic researchers in virtually all existing engineering disciplines.

Author : Martin David,Timothy Smeeding
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226137285

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Horizontal Equity, Uncertainty, and Economic Well-being by Martin David,Timothy Smeeding Pdf

The result of a National Bureau of Economic Research Income and Wealth conference held in December 1983, this volume looks at the concept of "economic well-being" and the ways that analysts have tried to measure it. In addition to income, economists have begun to consider such factors as pensions, wealth, health, and environment when measuring the well-being of a particular group. They have also begun to measure how consumers respond, successfully or unsuccessfully, to such economic uncertainties as inflation, divorce, and retirement. Using new data and techniques, the contributors to this book concentrate on issues of uncertainty and horizontal equity (the equal treatment of individuals within a defined group). Their work points to better ways of determining how various groups in a society are faring relative to other groups. Economists and policy analysts, therefore, will be in a better position to determine how government programs should be applied when well-being is used as a test.

Author : Christian E. Weller
Publisher : ILR Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0913447102

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Inequality, Uncertainty, and Opportunity by Christian E. Weller Pdf

Inequality, Uncertainty, and Opportunity provides readers with a sense of the many ways in which financial market developments influence labor and industrial relations.

Author : Joachim Gwinner,Baasansuren Jadamba,Akhtar A. Khan,Fabio Raciti
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781351857673

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Uncertainty Quantification in Variational Inequalities by Joachim Gwinner,Baasansuren Jadamba,Akhtar A. Khan,Fabio Raciti Pdf

Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) is an emerging and extremely active research discipline which aims to quantitatively treat any uncertainty in applied models. The primary objective of Uncertainty Quantification in Variational Inequalities: Theory, Numerics, and Applications is to present a comprehensive treatment of UQ in variational inequalities and some of its generalizations emerging from various network, economic, and engineering models. Some of the developed techniques also apply to machine learning, neural networks, and related fields. Features First book on UQ in variational inequalities emerging from various network, economic, and engineering models Completely self-contained and lucid in style Aimed for a diverse audience including applied mathematicians, engineers, economists, and professionals from academia Includes the most recent developments on the subject which so far have only been available in the research literature

Author : Eliphas Ndou,Thabo Mokoena
Publisher : Springer
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030198039

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Inequality, Output-Inflation Trade-Off and Economic Policy Uncertainty by Eliphas Ndou,Thabo Mokoena Pdf

This book focuses on income inequality, output-inflation trade-off and economic policy uncertainty in South Africa. Tight monetary and macroprudential policies raise income inequality. Income inequality transmits monetary policy and macroprudential policy shocks to real economic activity. Economic policy uncertainty influences the dynamics in the lending rate margins, inflation expectations, credit, pass-through of the repo rate to bank lending rates and companies’ cash holdings. The trade-off between output and inflation and output growth persistence vary with inflation regimes. Stimulatory demand policy shocks are less effective in high inflation regime. High income inequality raises consumption inequality, which raises demand for credit, but price stability matters in this link. Increased bank concentration raises income inequality, lowers economic growth and employment rate. Elevated economic policy uncertainty lowers output growth, lowers capital formation, reduces credit and raises companies’ cash holdings. Increased companies’ cash holdings reduce capital formation and impact the transmission of expansionary monetary policy shocks to real economic activity. This book shows there is an inflation level within the target band below it which lowers income inequality, while raising GDP growth and employment. Thus price stability, economic policy uncertainty and income inequality matter for the efficient transmission of policy shocks.

Author : Aliya Hamid Rao
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520298606

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Crunch Time by Aliya Hamid Rao Pdf

In Crunch Time, Aliya Hamid Rao gets up close and personal with college-educated, unemployed men, women, and spouses to explain how comparable men and women have starkly different experiences of unemployment. Traditionally gendered understandings of work—that it’s a requirement for men and optional for women—loom large in this process, even for marriages that had been not organized in gender-traditional ways. These beliefs serve to make men’s unemployment an urgent problem, while women’s unemployment—cocooned within a narrative of staying at home—is almost a non-issue. Crunch Time reveals the minutiae of how gendered norms and behaviors are actively maintained by spouses at a time when they could be dismantled, and how gender is central to the ways couples react to and make sense of unemployment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004357044

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Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond by Anonim Pdf

Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond is a collection of critical essays on the economist’s iconic 2014 book, from the perspective of critical theory, global political economy or public sociology, mostly drawn from the Marxist tradition.

Author : James Feigenbaum,Geng Li
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781437987430

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Household Income Uncertainties Over Three Decades by James Feigenbaum,Geng Li Pdf

Studies the trend in household income uncertainty using a novel approach that measures income uncertainty as the variance of forecast errors at each future horizon separately without imposing parametric restrictions on the underlying income shocks. Household income uncertainty has risen significantly and persistently since the early 1970s. Their measure of near-future uncertainty in total family non-capital income rose 40% between 1971 and 2002. This rising uncertainty is likely due to the increase in variances of both persistent and transitory income shocks. The increase was most pronounced among single-earner households and high-income households. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.

Author : Destin Jenkins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226721682

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The Bonds of Inequality by Destin Jenkins Pdf

Indebtedness, like inequality, has become a ubiquitous condition in the United States. Yet few have probed American cities’ dependence on municipal debt or how the terms of municipal finance structure racial privileges, entrench spatial neglect, elide democratic input, and distribute wealth and power. In this passionate and deeply researched book, Destin Jenkins shows in vivid detail how, beyond the borrowing decisions of American cities and beneath their quotidian infrastructure, there lurks a world of politics and finance that is rarely seen, let alone understood. Focusing on San Francisco, The Bonds of Inequality offers a singular view of the postwar city, one where the dynamics that drove its creation encompassed not only local politicians but also banks, credit rating firms, insurance companies, and the national municipal bond market. Moving between the local and the national, The Bonds of Inequality uncovers how racial inequalities in San Francisco were intrinsically tied to municipal finance arrangements and how these arrangements were central in determining the distribution of resources in the city. By homing in on financing and its imperatives, Jenkins boldly rewrites the history of modern American cities, revealing the hidden strings that bind debt and power, race and inequity, democracy and capitalism.

Author : Rajib Bhattacharyya,Ramesh Chandra Das,Achintya Ray
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789819944057

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COVID-19 Pandemic and Global Inequality by Rajib Bhattacharyya,Ramesh Chandra Das,Achintya Ray Pdf

The book intends to capture the most critical issue that has cropped up as an aftermath of the Corona pandemic- the phenomenon of widening of global inequalities across nations depending upon their economic position, support policies of the government and international relationship particularly in the context of alarming growth of unemployed in the labour market, business activity and social sector. This book is expected to provide new areas of research to both academicians and policy makers to re-think about global cooperation for bridging the inequalities for a better world. It tries to incorporate the valuable contribution of experts from various fields of knowledge in a consolidated volume. This text will be revised once the chapters are finalized and put together in structured themes. The table of content lists some of the chapters that have been confirmed, but there are more that are being invited by the editors.

Author : Michael Ruzhansky,Durvudkhan Suragan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9783030028954

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Hardy Inequalities on Homogeneous Groups by Michael Ruzhansky,Durvudkhan Suragan Pdf

This open access book provides an extensive treatment of Hardy inequalities and closely related topics from the point of view of Folland and Stein's homogeneous (Lie) groups. The place where Hardy inequalities and homogeneous groups meet is a beautiful area of mathematics with links to many other subjects. While describing the general theory of Hardy, Rellich, Caffarelli-Kohn-Nirenberg, Sobolev, and other inequalities in the setting of general homogeneous groups, the authors pay particular attention to the special class of stratified groups. In this environment, the theory of Hardy inequalities becomes intricately intertwined with the properties of sub-Laplacians and subelliptic partial differential equations. These topics constitute the core of this book and they are complemented by additional, closely related topics such as uncertainty principles, function spaces on homogeneous groups, the potential theory for stratified groups, and the potential theory for general Hörmander's sums of squares and their fundamental solutions. This monograph is the winner of the 2018 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize, a prestigious award for books of expository nature presenting the latest developments in an active area of research in mathematics. As can be attested as the winner of such an award, it is a vital contribution to literature of analysis not only because it presents a detailed account of the recent developments in the field, but also because the book is accessible to anyone with a basic level of understanding of analysis. Undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers from any field of mathematical and physical sciences related to analysis involving functional inequalities or analysis of homogeneous groups will find the text beneficial to deepen their understanding.

Author : Pedro López-Roldán,Sandra Fachelli
Publisher : Springer
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3030484440

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Towards a Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities between Europe and Latin America by Pedro López-Roldán,Sandra Fachelli Pdf

This open access volume identifies the common and specific aspects of social mechanisms that generate inequalities, through comparative analyses of different dimensions in which inequalities are expressed. It includes studies on social inequalities in 5 European and 5 Latin American countries, along 11 thematic axes: inequalities in the labour market and labour trajectories; asymmetries in the relationship between training and employment; inequalities in work and family life; educational inequalities; geographical and social inequalities: ethnicity and language; social inequalities, migration and space; uncertainty, strategies, resources and capabilities; inequality of opportunity: intergenerational social mobility; social policies; gender inequalities; and research methodology. This volume is the result of a large collaborative project on social inequality funded by the European Commission: the International Network for Comparative Analysis of Social Inequalities. Taking into account diverse perspectives and approximations, the collaborators have created a general analytical framework as a model of analysis of social inequalities. The various contributions in this volume help readers gain a global outlook and help reflect on social inequalities in a comparative perspective. This volume addresses social science graduate and postgraduate students, researchers, social policy makers, as well as a broader academic audience interested in social inequality.

Author : Dong Wang,Ming-Liang Hu,Jun Feng,Yao-Zhong Zhang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-03
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9782832501375

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Uncertainty Relations and Their Applications by Dong Wang,Ming-Liang Hu,Jun Feng,Yao-Zhong Zhang Pdf