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Ungrouping income distributions: Synthesising samples for inequality and poverty analysis
Shorrocks, Anthony; Wan, Guanghua - 2008
counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …
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Social Position and Fairness Views
Hvidberg, Kristoffer Balle; Kreiner, Claus Thustrup; … - 2021
We link survey data containing Danish people’s perceptions of where they rank in various reference groups and fairness views with administrative records on their income history, life events, and reference groups. People know their income positions well, but believe others are closer to...
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How To Win Acceptance Of The Inequality Process As Economics?
Angle, John - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
The Inequality Process (IP) is a particle system model similar to that of the Kinetic Theory of Gases. The IP is a parsimonious model of competition among people for wealth. The IP explains a wide scope of stable patterns in the distribution of personal income and wealth. Econophysicists have...
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Pro-rich Inflation in Europe: Implications for the Measurement of Inequality
Gürer, Eren; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2018
change in the Gini (based on consumption expenditure) by up to 0.03 points. Cross-country heterogeneity in this change is … large as the change in the standard Gini measure over the period of interest. …
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The dynamics of personal income distribution and inequality in the United States
Kitov, Ivan; Kitov, Oleg - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
We model the evolution of age-dependent personal income distribution and inequality as expressed by the Gini ratio. In …) and to compute the Gini ratios. The latter are predicted very accurately - up to 3 decimal places. We show that Gini for … of people with income between 1947 and 1999, the overall Gini reveals a tendency to decline slightly with time. The age …
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Should Income Inequality be Praised? Multiple Public Goods Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare
Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016
We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...
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Measuring Unfair Inequality: Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
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Richer or more Numerous or both? The Role of Population and Economic Growth for Top Income Shares
Krolage, Carla; Peichl, Andreas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2018
When measuring income inequality over long periods of time, accounting for population and productivity growth is important. This paper presents three alternative measures of top income shares that more explicitly account for population and income growth than the standard measure. We apply these...
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Measuring Ethnic Stratification and its Effect on Trust in Africa
Hodler, Roland; Srisuma, Sorawoot; Vesperoni, Alberto; … - 2018
We define and axiomatically characterize an index of ethnic stratification that measures the extent to which the …-behaved statistical properties, and we show that ethnic stratification is empirically related to low levels of trust in other people and …
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Well-being inequality and reference groups: An agenda for new research
van Praag, Bernard M. S. - 2010
It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing process into account. The reference effect depends on how frequently individuals compare with others and on the degree of social transparency in society. In this paper we employ the...
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