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The purpose of this paper is to extend Dagum’s Gini decomposition (“A New Approach to the Decomposition of the Gini …
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Sen [1976] with the Gini index of poverty gap ratio, that is, a fundamental component of Sen’s poverty index. The problem … is that this Gini index does not offer any information on the determinants of the inequalities. For this purpose, Mussard … [2004] introduced the bidimensional decomposition of the Gini ratio, where both sub-groups and income sources are jointly …
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Gini and entropy are the most use measures to gauge income inequalities. We show that each measure yields different … subgroup decomposition techniques into within-group inequalities and between-group inequalities. Then, we show that the Gini …
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Following Milanovic's (1997) paper [Economics Letters, vol. 56, p. 45-49], we propose a simple way to compute the Gini …
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Income inequality measures involve two sub-classes of decomposable measures: those decomposed by sub-groups and those decomposed by income source. The former enables one to compute between- and within-group indices. The latter allows for gauging the inequality related to each factor of income...
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After the introduction in Section 2, we very briefly sketch out current theoretical and empirical developments in the social sciences. In our view, they all point in the same direction: toward the acute and increasing need for multidisciplinary longitudinal data covering a wide range of living...
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We present a new data set we built based on Swiss rich lists going back to 1989. We show, among other things, that 60% of the super-rich are heirs—a fraction twice as large as in the US—and that wealth mobility at the very top has declined significantly. We find that top 0.01% wealth shares...
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Top distributions of income and wealth are still incompletely measured in many national statistics, particularly when using survey data. This paper develops the technique of incorporating the joint distributional relationship to enhance the estimation of these two top distributions by using the...
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We collect, digitize, and supplement the Swiss rich list for the years 1989–2020 published in the "BILANZ" business magazine to gain new insights on the structure and dynamics of top wealth in Switzerland. Using this data allows us study the super-rich in Switzerland in ways that were not...
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counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …
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