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We develop a GMM procedure for estimating income distributions from grouped data with unknown group bounds. The approach enables us to obtain standard errors for the estimated parameters and functions of the parameters, such as inequality and poverty measures, and to test the validity of an...
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Various inequality and social welfare measures often depend heavily on the choice of a distribution of income. Picking a distribution that best fits the data in some sense involves throwing away information and does not allow for the fact that, by chance, a wrong choice can be made. It also does...
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This paper makes new projections of government social outlays for Australia. The calculations suggest that government social outlays will increase considerably as a percent of GDP over the next 50 years, by 7.3 percent of GDP in the base case. This is a greater increase than that found by...
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