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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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The ex-ante effects of non-contributory pensions in Colombia and Peru

Olivera, Javier; Zuluaga, Blanca - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

in Colombia and Peru. Relying on household survey data, we simulate the potential impact of the transfer on poverty … Nested Logit Model. Our results show that a NCP in Colombia and Peru contributes to the reduction of poverty and inequality …

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The Luxembourg Income Study

Ravallion, Martin - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014

-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …

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Inequality from a global perspective: An alternative approach

Edward, Peter; Sumner, Andy - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality, and the implications this has for who benefits from recent global growth (and by how much), has become a significant avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from...

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The impact of taxes and social spending on inequality and poverty in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay: An overview

Lustig, Nora; Amábile, Florencia; Bucheli, Marisa; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013

How much redistribution and poverty reduction is being accomplished in Latin America through social spending, subsidies … comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … offset the poverty-reducing impact of cash transfers. When one includes the in-kind transfers in education and health, valued …

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Disparities in Socio-Economic Outcomes: Some Positive Propositions and their Normative Implications

Lambert, Peter J.; Subramanian, S. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012

Demographic disparities between the rates of occurrence of an adverse economic outcome can be observed to be increasing even as general social improvements supposedly lead towards the elimination of the adverse outcome in question. Scanlan (2006) noticed this tendency and developed a...

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Influence functions for distributional statistics

Essama-Nssah, B.; Lambert, Peter J. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

central tendency, inequality and poverty and also measures of the degree of pro-poorness of a shock- or policy-induced change …

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