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) for which stratification by race or ethnicity is possible, this paper demonstrates (using Theil index decompositions as … with high inequality by gender, race, and ethnicity. However, the latter phenomenon is not a major contributor to the …
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) for which stratification by race or ethnicity is possible, this paper demonstrates (using Theil index decompositions as … with high inequality by gender, race, and ethnicity. However, the latter phenomenon is not a major contributor to the …
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proposes the application of the between-group component of the Theil index to data on wages, earnings and employment by …
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A long literature on inter-distributional inequality (IDI) has developed statistical tools for measuring the extent of inequality between two groups (e.g. men versus women). Firstly, I introduce the property of group-specific disadvantage focus (GDF). Indices satisfying this property are only...
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The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...
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An income inequality index number, which assigns a single numerical value to the income distribution, cannot summarize … the complete information in the distribution. We propose a family of inequality index curves, which includes curves … generated by popular inequality index numbers (e.g. the top income shares, the Gini coefficient, the single parameter Gini …
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different distributions.To circumvent the above limitations, this paper proposes a new index which can make comparison between … any groups with different income level, for example, the richest group and the poorest group. The new index provides … different values for different distributions and different parts of any distributions. The new index satisfies the axioms of …
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different distributions.To circumvent the above limitations, this paper proposes a new index which can make comparison between … any groups with different income level, for example, the richest group and the poorest group. The new index provides … different values for different distributions and different parts of any distributions. The new index satisfies the axioms of …
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