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Most equivalence scales which are applied in research on poverty and inequality do not depend on income, although there … differing assessments of poverty and inequality under quite general conditions. German microdata will be used to demonstrate and …
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We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
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This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … ; poverty ; inequality ; welfare measurement ; vulnerability …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We …
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fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …
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The cross-country relationship between Covid-19 crude mortality rates and previously measured income inequality and … poverty in the pandemic’s first wave is studied, controlling for other underlying factors, in a sample of 141 countries. An … income. Poverty as measured by the $1.90 per day standard has a small negative association with death rates. The elasticity …
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large enough to alter the inequality ranking of numerous countries. The average inflation effect we detect is almost as …
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utilitarian social welfare function yields a simple welfare measure which comprises both GDP and income inequality as measured by …
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relatively poor for both rural and urban areas across the states of India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption …
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Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative … rents-induced inequality. …
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This study examines the impact of international economic sanctions, imposed on Iran due to its nuclear program, on the development of the middle class. Specifically, it investigates how the middle class in Iran would have developed in the absence of these sanctions post-2012. To address this...
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