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Estimating welfare indices: household weights and sample design

Cowell, Frank A.; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2000

The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...

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The global joint distribution of income and health

Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - 2008

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …

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Temporary migration policies and welfare of the host and source countries : a game-theoretic approach

Djajić, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - 2009

This paper examines the interaction between migration policies of the host and source countries in the context of a model of guest-worker migration. For the host, the objective is to provide low-cost labor for its employers while avoiding illegal immigration. It optimizes over these objectives...

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The distributional consequences of supply-side reforms in general equilibrium

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Fernandez, Bernardo X.; … - 2011

can thus increase inequality in the long-run. Depending on the elasticity of substitution between capital and unskilled … show that including the transition period in the welfare evaluation lowers the inequality effects of capital tax reduc …

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The Welfare Effects of Farm Household Activity Choices in Post-War Mozambique

Brück, Tilman - 2004

This paper analyses the effects of activity choices on farm household income and consumption in a war-affected developing country. The study uses household survey data from Mozambique and controls for the endogeneity of activity choices with instrumental variables. War-time activity choices...

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