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Income Inequality and Political Participation: A District-Level Analysis of Hong Kong Elections

Mathew Y. H. Wong, +1 more
- 03 Jan 2022 - 
- Vol. 162, Iss: 3, pp 959-977
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This article is published in Social Indicators Research.The article was published on 2022-01-03. It has received 3 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Inequality & Economic inequality.

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Income Inequality and Political Participation in Asia

Mathew Y. H. Wong
- 18 May 2022 - 
TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of income inequality on political participation in Asia and found that it is positively associated with violent activities; has no significant correlation with less radical forms of protest; and is negatively associated with institutional actions, namely voting and persuading others to vote.
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A Recognition-Based Study of Frustrations, Risks, and Navigation in Career Transition Among Educationally Disadvantaged Young Women

Xiao Bao
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Monitoring socioeconomic inequalities in health in Hong Kong: insights and lessons from the UK and Australia

Gary K K Chung, +3 more
- 01 Nov 2022 - 
TL;DR: In this article , the authors draw reference and lesson from the UK and Australia to explore the feasible steps forward regarding collection of health indicators and contextually appropriate equity stratifiers with strong implication on policy actions, and discuss potential strategies to promote the public awareness and motivations for a more comprehensive inequality monitoring system.
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A Rational Theory of the Size of Government

Allan H Meltzer, +1 more
- 01 Oct 1981 - 
TL;DR: In a general equilibrium model of a labor economy, the size of government, measured by the share of income redistributed, is determined by majority rule as mentioned in this paper, where voters rationally anticipate the disincentive effects of taxation on the labor-leisure choices of their fellow citizens and take the effect into account when voting.
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Modernization, cultural change, and the persistence of traditional values.

Ronald Inglehart, +1 more
- 01 Jan 2000 - 
TL;DR: This article found evidence of both massive cultural change and the persistence of distinctive cultural traditions in 65 societies and 75 percent of the world's population using data from the three waves of the World Values Surveys.
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Trends in U.S. Wage Inequality: Revising the Revisionists

David H. Autor, +2 more
- 18 Apr 2008 - 
TL;DR: This paper found that the slowing of the growth of overall wage inequality in the 1990s hides a divergence in the paths of upper-tail (90/50) inequality and lower-tail inequality, even adjusting for changes in labor force composition.
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Participation in Heterogeneous Communities

Alberto Alesina, +1 more
- 01 Aug 2000 - 
TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the degree of heterogeneity in communities and found that participants who expressed views against racial mixing are less likely to participate in groups the more racially heterogeneous their community is.
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Why Men Rebel

R. D. Jessop
- 01 May 1971 - 
TL;DR: Why Men Rebel was first published in 1970 on the heels of a decade of political violence and protest not only in remote corners of Africa and Southeast Asia, but also at home in the United States as discussed by the authors.