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The subjective approach to the measurement of income inequality

Amiel, Yoram - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality …

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Growth and inequality: a demographic explanation

Miyazawa, Kazutoshi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … inequality is at first positive and then may be negative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with the …

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Empirics for growth and distribution

Quah, Danny - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1997

This paper studies cross-country patterns of economic growth from the viewpoint of income distribution dynamics. Such a perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues in growth analysis: the profound empirical regularity is an \emerging twin peaks" in the cross-sectional distribution,...

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Inequality: measurement

Cowell, Frank - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion …

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A note on the estimation of intergenerational income correlations by the method of averaging

Abul Naga, Ramses H. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2001

Averaging methods are routinely used in order to limit biases resulting from the mismeasurement of permanent incomes. The Solon/Zimmerman estimator regresses a single-year measurement of the child's resources on a T-period average of the parents' income while the Behrman/Taubman estimator...

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Preference reversals and the analysis of income distributions

Amiel, Yoram; Cowell, Frank; Davidovitz, Leima; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

It is known from the literature on uncertainty that in cases where individuals express a preference for a high win-probability bet over a bet with high winnings they nevertheless will bid more to obtain the bet with high winnings. We investigate whether a similar phenomenon applies in the...

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Measuring inequality by counting 'complaints': theory and empirics

Devooght, Kurt - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

This paper examines how people assess inequality of an income distribution and how inequality could be measured. We … start from philosophical analysis of L Temkin who distinguishes nine plausible aspects of inequality. His approach is based …

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Inequality in Greece: an analysis by income source

Papatheodorou, Christos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1998

This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …

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Give PC's a chance: personal computer ownership and the digital divide in the United States and Great Britain

Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

growing inequality in PC ownership over the 1980s and 1990s. Analysis of ownership patterns of four other household consumer … durables suggests that there may be significant limitations to relying solely on the market to eradicate PC inequality quickly. …

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Deliberative research as a tool to make value judgements

Burchardt, Tania - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

to research on poverty, well-being and inequality, where there is a need to define and justify the thresholds and …

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