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proposes the application of the between-group component of the Theil index to data on wages, earnings and employment by … empirical application to the case of Brazil, an important developing country for which economy-wide Gini coefficients are scarce …
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The paper extends the methodological toolbox of measures of industrial concentration and regional specialization. First, a taxonomy is proposed which gives rise to a modular construction system for disproportionality measures based on three characteristic features: the projection function, the...
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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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In this paper, we propose to use the so-called Sen-Shorrocks poverty index (Shorrocks, 1995) to measure …, the most common case in the literature, and introduce a rank-dependent multidimensional poverty index for multiple binary … indicators using a counting approach. The resulting multidimensional deprivation index, or MDI for short, also has a nice …
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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). The paper reviews some of the most prominent IDI indices proposed in the last four decades. The assessment focuses on how...
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