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Measuring savers' preferences how and why?
Arrondel, Luc; Masson, André - HAL - 2013
Measuring individual preferences of savers have two main motivations: to reduce the share of non-observed heterogeneity in explaining households' wealth behaviors, and to construct more accurate tests of the theories of savings and portfolio choices. For France, we have constructed a unique data...
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The three worlds of welfare capitalism revisited
Brockhoff, Sarah; Rossignol, Stéphane; Taugourdeau, … - HAL - 2012
distribution of risks inside society, the Liberal system wins if the inequality of income is low, and the Beveridgean system wins … if the inequality of income is high. Using a utilitarian criterion, the Beveridgean system always dominates and the …
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Asymptotic and bootstrap inference for inequality and poverty measures
Davidson, Russell; Flachaire, Emmanuel - HAL - 2007
bootstrapping a commonly used index of inequality leads to inference that is not accurate even in very large samples, although … inference with poverty indices is satisfactory. We find that the major cause is the extreme sensitivity of many inequality …
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Inference on Income Distributions
Davidson, Russell - HAL - 2010
distributions. Two main approaches can be distinguished: one in which the object of interest is some index of income inequality or …
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