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Testing for Restricted Stochastic Dominance
Davidson, Russell; Duclos, Jean-Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Asymptotic and bootstrap tests are studied for testing whether there is a relation of stochastic dominance between two distributions. These tests have a null hypothesis of nondominance, with the advantage that, if this null is rejected, then all that is left is dominance. This also leads us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822195
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Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Araar, Abdelkrim; Giles, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763836
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Inequality of Opportunity, Income Inequality and Economic Mobility: Some International Comparisons
Brunori, Paolo; Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
countries. It also examines international correlations between these indices and output per capita, income inequality, and … is positively correlated with overall income inequality, and negatively with measures of intergenerational mobility, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252279
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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959759
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Sweden’s Pensioners: How They Have Fared in the Roller Coaster Ride through the Past Decade and a Half of Deep Recession and Economic Exuberance
Gustafsson, Björn; Johansson, Mats; Palmer, Edward - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events - using data from the Household Income … income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703767
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Migration's Income and Poverty Impact Has Been Underestimated
Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762256
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Taxing Home Ownership: Distributional Effects of Including Net Imputed Rent in Taxable Income
Figari, Francesco; Paulus, Alari; Sutherland, Holly; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Imputed rental income of homeowners is tax exempt in most countries, despite the long-standing arguments recommending … rent, net of mortgage interest and maintenance costs, in taxable income as any cash income source that extends consumption … opportunities. Three scenarios are analysed in six European countries: in the first imputed rent is included in the taxable income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279327
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Economic Gains from Publicly Provided Education in Germany
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M.; Groh-Samberg, Olaf - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The aim of this paper is to estimate income advantages arising from publicly provided education and to analyse their … impact on the income distribution in Germany. Using representative micro-data from the SOEP and considering regional and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822182
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As SIMPL As That: Introducing a Tax-Benefit Microsimulation Model for Poland
Bargain, Olivier; Socha, Mieczysław Wacław; Morawski, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The Polish tax and benefit system is presented in the context of a recently developed microsimulation model, SIMPL. The model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributions and public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005. It is based on the Household Budgets Survey data (Badania...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763653
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Labor Market and Income Effects of a Legal Minimum Wage in Germany
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
In view of rising wage and income inequality, the introduction of a legal minimum wage has recently become an important … reducing income inequality, even if it led to a substantial increase in hourly wages at the bottom of the wage distribution …. The ineffectiveness of a minimum wage in Germany is mainly due to the existing system of means-tested income support and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506065