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decomposition techniques of inequality measurement in a bivariate distribution context. Usually decomposed measures of inequality …
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ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well … transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …
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flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well-known Gini … inequality-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate …
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poverty, welfare and inequality. This includes estimators of most of the poverty indices currently in use, as well as …, inequality or social welfare is greater in one distribution than in another for general classes of indices. We also derive the …
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This paper evaluates the tax reforms carried out in Sweden between 1980 and 1991. We use a recently developed nonparametric estimation technique to account for labor supply responses. We decompose the tax returns to study how the separate components influence hours of work, tax revenues...
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This paper makes a new attack on the old problem of measuring horizontal inequity (HI). A local measure of HI is proposed, and aggregated into a global index. Whilst other approaches have captured the welfare gain which would come from eliminating HI revenue-neutrally, our global index provides...
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inequality and high redistributive effect for some specific figures of transfers. The contribution from Vertical Equity (VE) is …
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incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …
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L’objectif principal de la Stratégie de croissance accélérée (SCA) du Sénégal est d’accroître le rythme de la croissance de l’économie en la rendant profitable aux pauvres. Or dans toute économie, il existe une relation entre la croissance économique, la réduction de la...
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source on inequality in total income. This note extends the methodology to take into account income variability. …
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