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Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
as well off as he could be by undertaking inter-period income transfers. There is long-term ex-post inequality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512115
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Counting poverty orderings and deprivation curves
Vega, Ma. Casilda Lasso de la - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
Most of the data available for measuring capabilities or dimensions of poverty is either ordinal or categorical. However, the majority of the indices introduced for the assessment of multidimensional poverty behave well only with cardinal variables. The counting approach introduced by Atkinson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512116
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A quality-index of poverty measures
Gottlieb, Daniel; Fruman, Alexander - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The multitude of available poverty measures can confuse a policy maker who wants to evaluate a poverty-reduction policy. We proposes a rule for ranking poverty measures by use of the food-gap, calculated as the cost-difference between a household’s normative food basket, derived from a healthy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009370127
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Income Mobility
Jantti, Markus; Jenkins, Stephen P. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
We survey the literature on income mobility, aiming to provide an integrated discussion of mobility within- and between-generations. We review mobility concepts, descriptive devices, measurement methods, data sources, and recent empirical evidence.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878114
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Wage comparisons in and out of the firm. Evidence from a matched employer-employee French database
Godechot, Olivier; Senik, Claudia - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
This paper looks at the association between wage satisfaction and different notions of reference wage, based on a matched employer-employee dataset. It shows that workers’ satisfaction depends on other-people’s income in different ways. Relative income concerns are important, but we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878142
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Welfare, inequality and financial consequences of a multi-pillar pension system. A reform in Peru
Olivera, Javier - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
economic debate. However, this reform may widen inequality in old-age and reduce welfare. In this paper we study the … for Peruvian workers to estimate inequality in pensions, pension debt and welfare. Overall, our results show that the … pension debt and inequality can be substantially reduced without welfare losses. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468727
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Informality and poverty: Are these processes dynamically interrelated? Evidence from Argentina
Devicienti, Francesco; Groisman, Fernando; Poggi, Ambra - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
Poverty and informal employment are often regarded as correlated phenomena. Many empirical studies have shown that informal employment has a causal impact on household poverty, mainly through low wages. Yet other studies focus on the reverse causality from poverty to informality, arising from a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469026
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Changes in poverty and the stability of income distribution in Argentina: evidence from the 1990s via decompositions
Boo, Florencia Lopez - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
characterized by increasing income inequality and poverty. An axiomatically modified Datt-Ravallion decomposition, that separates … changes in poverty rates into mean and inequality components, will illustrate how each of them has contributed to those … changes. Contrary to the claims of much of the recent cross-country literature, income inequality does not appear stable in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413368
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A New Multiplicative Decomposition For The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke Poverty Indices
Aristondo, Oihana; Vega, Casilda Lasso de la; Urrutia, Ana - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
, the intensity of poverty, measured by the aggregate income gap ratio and the inequality among the poor measured by an … increasing transformation of the corresponding inequality index of the Generalized Entropy family. Then, taking data from the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413385
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On the measurement of long-term income inequality and income mobility
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
This paper proposes a two-step aggregation method for measuring long-term income inequality and income mobility, where …, inequality and mobility. To this end, we employ an axiomatic approach to justify the introduction of a generalized family of rank …-dependent measures of inequality, where the distributional weights, as opposed to the Mehran-Yaari family, depend on income shares as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512110