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World income inequality databases : an assessment of WIID and SWIID

Jenkins, Stephen - 2014

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and...

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Evolution of inequality in Nigeria : a tale of falling inequality, rising poverty and regional heterogeneity

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...

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Inequality of opportunity in household income, China 2002-2018

Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn; Sicular, Terry - 2021

This study contributes to the literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in China by covering a longer and more recent span of time, employing better measures of given characteristics, and analyzing IOp for household income per capita with comparisons to individual income. Furthermore, we...

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Regional income stratification in unified Germany using a Gini decomposition approach

Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); Goebel, Jan (contributor) - 2005

unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the … regional concentration of future transfers from East to West Germany. -- inequality decomposition ; Gini ; stratification …This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after …

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Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time: Ireland 1987 - 2005

Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire - 2010

By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...

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The insights and illusions of consumption measurements

Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Krishnan, Nandini - 2020

While household well-being derives from long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. We develop a new strategy to identify the distribution of these long-term rates by leveraging a large-scale randomization in Iraq that...

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The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) - Evolution, Scope and Enhancements

Wagner, Gert G.; Frick, Joachim R.; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010

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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Using Rich Lists to Study the Super-Rich and Top Wealth Inequality: Insights from Switzerland

Baselgia, Enea; Martínez, Isabel Z. - 2024

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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A joint top income and wealth distribution

Steiner, Viktor; Zhu, Junyi - 2021

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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Tracking and Taxing the Super-Rich: Insights from Swiss Rich Lists

Baselgia, Enea; Martínez, Isabel Z. - 2022

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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