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Unequal expectations: Gender inequality in the salary expectations of university students
Gradín, Carlos; Mambo, Felix; Paris, Yonesse; Santos, … - 2020
Mozambican university students prior to their transition to the labour market. The measurements of segmentation, stratification …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424065
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New imputation procedures in the measurement of inequality, growth, and poverty in Brazil
Hecksher, Marcos; Neri, Marcelo Cortes; Silva, Pedro … - 2018
This paper develops a new imputation methodology applied to missing incomes values in PNAD. PNAD is the main Brazilian household survey, but it has no imputation. The imputation process starts by fitting regression models applied to different income sources considering the complex sampling...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943933
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Differences in inequality measurement: Ghana case study
Atta-Ankomah, Richmond; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Osei, … - 2023
Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … extent to which estimates of Gini coefficients from the WIID Companion are consistent with and add to the prevailing … understanding of inequality in Ghana. To this end, we review the primary source of data for the three main Gini series on Ghana …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014222824
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424473
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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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Analysis of the distributional effects of COVID19 and state-led remedial measures in South Africa
Barnes, Helen; Espi-Sanchis, Gabriel; Leibbrandt, Murray V. - 2021
This paper explores the impact of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa on income poverty and inequality in South Africa. Using a static tax-benefit microsimulation model with input datasets that were adjusted to reflect people's earned incomes just before the pandemic (March...
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Simulating personal income tax in South Africa using administrative data and survey data: A comparison of PITMOD and SAMOD for tax year 2018
Steyn, Wynnona; Sithole, Alexius; Ngobeni, Winile; … - 2021
In this paper we explore South Africa's personal income tax system using two microsimulation models. The first, SAMOD, simulates personal income tax and social benefits using a dataset derived from the nationally representative National Income Dynamics Study survey. The second, PITMOD, simulates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705318
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Exploring the quality of income data in two African household surveys for the purpose of tax-benefit microsimulation modelling: Imputing employment income in Tanzania and Zambia
McLennan, David; Noble, Michael; Wright, Gemma Clare; … - 2021
The quality of data on employment income is explored using Tanzanian and Zambian household survey datasets. The extent of missing and implausible income data is assessed and four different methods are applied to impute missing or implausible values. The four imputation methods are also applied...
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