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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …
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This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel … cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing …
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Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and … on inequality, bipolarization and polarization is analyzed via what is known as the Shapley de-composition and the …
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Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …
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) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …
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developing countries. Applying inequality indices and FieldsÂ’ (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data … of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends in wage inequality of urban Bolivia. Using a rent-based dual …
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FDI stocks on income inequality among households in Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay. The panel cointegration … analysis reveals a significant and positive effect on income inequality. Furthermore, FDI contributed to widening income gaps …
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We have shown that firm size signed displacement data follow not only power-law in the large scale region but also the log-normal distribution in the middle scale one. In the analyses, we employ three databases: high-income data, high-sales data and positive-profits data of Japanese firms. It is...
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Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures could be compromised in the absence of a clear and coherent conceptualization of the phenomenon being measured. A case in point is afforded by the status of a focus axiom in the...
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Subgroup decomposability is a very useful property in an inequality measure, and level-sensitivity, which requires a … given level of inequality to acquire a greater significance the poorer a population is, is a distributionally appealing … axiom for an inequality index to satisfy. In this paper, which is largely in the nature of a recollection of important …
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