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An integrated approach for the measurement of inequality, poverty, and richness
Crespo, Nuno; Moreira, Sandrina Berthault; Simões, Nádia - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
We propose a new and integrated approach to the measurement of inequality in income distribution, poverty, and richness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249978
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The pro-poorness, growth and inequality nexus: Some findings from a simulation study
Groll, Thomas; Lambert, Peter J. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equiproportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either … detail the properties of inequality reduction and pro-poorness, using the Watts poverty index and Gini inequality index, when …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274352
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Lower and upper bounds of unfair inequality: Theory and evidence for Germany and the US
Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274353
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Ranking Inequality: Applications of Multivariate Subset Selection
Horrace, William C.; Marchand, Joseph T.; Smeeding, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
Inequality measures are often presented in the form of a rank ordering to highlight their relative magnitudes. However, a rank ordering may produce misleading inference, because the inequality measures themselves are statistical estimators with different standard errors, and because a rank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135139
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Poverty and Women’s Labor Market Activity: the Role of Gender Wage Discrimination in the EU
Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga; Río, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
The functioning of the labor market often has been stressed as a clear determinant in explaining poverty trends in … developed countries. In this paper, we analyze the role of gender wage discrimination on household poverty rates in several EU … poverty, we propose the construction of a counterfactual distribution of wages where discrimination against women has been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413382
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Inequality of opportunities vs. inequality of outcomes: Are Western societies all alike?
Lefranc, Arnaud; Pistolesi, Nicolas; Trannoy, Alain - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
This paper analyzes the relationship between income inequality and inequality of opportunities for income acquisition in nine developed countries during the nineties. We develop a new definition of equality of opportunity and show how it can be implemented empirically. Equality of opportunity is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413424
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Declining inequality in Latin America: Some economics, some politics
Birdsall, Nancy; Lustig, Nora; McLeod, Darryl - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143514
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
argue that conventional wisdom may be wrong. First, the extent and effectiveness of income redistribution and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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Race, poverty, and deprivation in South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among … those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans … show that the racial gap in poverty and deprivation can be attributed to the cumulative disadvantaged characteristics of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366282
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Evaluating welfare reform under program heterogeneity and alternative measures of success
Ayala, Luis; Rodríguez, Magdalena - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
This paper aims at presenting an assessment of welfare reforms under a framework of program heterogeneity and alternative measures of success. We focus on a specific welfare program –Madrid’s Ingreso Madrileño de Integración (IMI)– which comprises heterogeneous subprograms. We test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676882