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The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being: Estimates for Canada, 1999 and 2005
Sharpe, Andrew; Murray, Alexander; Evans, Benjamin; … - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011
household’s total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274400
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From Bottom to Top: The Entire Distribution of Market Income in Germany, 1992 - 2001
Bach, Stefan; Corneo, Giacomo; Steiner, Viktor - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963679
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Trends in Income Inequality, Pro-Poor Income Growth and Income Mobility
Jenkins, Stephen P.; VanKerm, Philippe - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2003
We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963952
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Country Inequality Rankings and Conversion Schemes
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008682910
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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007
The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided educa-tion and to analyse their impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and education-specific variation, from a cross-sectional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004963737
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Cyclical Changes in Short-Run Earnings Mobility in Canada, 1982-1996
Beach, Charles M.; Finnie, Ross - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
a given degree of earnings inequality, more earnings mobility corresponds to securing greater labour market opportunity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518922
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New Estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being for Selected OECD Countries, 1981 - 2007
Sharpe, Andrew; Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489033
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Measuring Economic Security in Insecure Times: New Perspectives, New Events, and the Index of Economic Well-being
Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
This report has two main objectives. The first is to outline the development of the methodology for the measurement of economic security in the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and to provide updated estimates of the Index of Economic Security over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489034
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The Economic Crises Through the Lens of Economic Well-being
Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
This report looks at how the economic crisis has unfolded in Canada and what will be the impacts on economic wellbeing. The shortfall is estimated to be approximately $12,000 ($2007) per capita. In other words, given no economic crisis, GDP per capita in Canada would have likely been $1,736...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489035
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New Estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being for Canada and the Provinces, 1981 - 2008
Sharpe, Andrew; Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds that the IEWB advanced at a 1.20 per cent average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489040