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New Directions in the Analysis of Inequality and Poverty

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Micklewright, John - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

Over the last four decades, academic and wider public interest in inequality and poverty has grown substantially. In … this paper we address the question: what have been the major new directions in the analysis of inequality and poverty over … inequality and poverty, changes in the policy environment, increased scrutiny of the concepts of 'poverty' and inequality' and …

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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. …

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Consistent estimation of the memory parameterfor nonlinear time series

Dalla, Violetta; Giraitis, Liudas; Hidalgo, Javier - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2006

For linear processes, semiparametric estimation of the memory parameter, based on the log-periodogramand local Whittle estimators, has been exhaustively examined and their properties are well established.However, except for some specific cases, little is known about the estimation of the memory...

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Consistent estimation of the memory parameterfor nonlinear time series

Dalla, Violetta; Giraitis, Liudas; Hidalgo, Javier - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2006

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Measuring Income Risk

Burgess, Simon; Gardiner, Karen; Jenkins, Stephen P.; … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2000

We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income risk of demographic and labour market factors....

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Accounting for Poverty Differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...

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Modelling Low Income Transitions

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Jenkins, Stephen P. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We examine the determinants of low income transitions using first-order Markov models that control for initial conditions effects (those found to be poor in the base year may be a nonrandom sample) and for attrition (panel retention may also be non-random). Our econometric model is a form of...

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The Effect of Family Income during Childhood on Later-life Attainment: Evidence from Germany

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Schluter, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2002

We examine the impact of family income during childhood on the type of secondary school that German children attend, a good indicator of their lifetime socioeconomic attainment. By contrast with several US child outcome studies, we find that late-childhood income is a more important determinant...

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Measuring Inequality Using Censored Data: A Multiple Imputation Approach

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2009

To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored … Population Survey (CPS) internal data, we find few statistically significant differences in income inequality for pairs of years … about inequality differences. Multiply-imputed public use data provide an intermediate solution. …

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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … summary measure of inequality. With access to public use and restricted-access internal CPS data, and bounding methods, we … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate timeinconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality …

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