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Bartels, Charlotte; Kersting, Felix; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2023

We study the dynamics of capital accumulation, income inequality, capital concentration, and voting up to 1914. Based on new panel data for Prussian regions, we re-evaluate the famous Revisionism Debate between orthodox Marxists and their critics. We show that changes in capital accumulation led...

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The barycenter of the distribution and its application to the measurement of inequality : the balance of inequality, the Gini index, and the Lorenz curve

Di Maio, Giorgio - 2022

, the Gini index is 2μX − 1, i.e., the normalization of the barycenter, which is in the range [0, 1/2], the concentration … area is μX − 1/2, and the Gini’s mean difference is 4μY (μX − 1/2). The same barycenter-based formulae hold for normalized …

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Redistributive impacts of fiscal policies in Mexico : corrections for top income measurement problems

Hlásny, Vladimír - 2019

yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … income has a strong equalizing impact of 3.3-4.5 points of the Gini further accentuated under the top-income corrections. The … equalizing impacts of 4.7-5.7, 1.6-1.9, and 1.2-2.2 points of the Gini, respectively. Indirect taxes and subsidies are weakly …

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The contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality : a counterfactual analysis for OECD countries

Ayala Cañón, Luis; Martin-Román, Javier; Vicente … - 2020

This paper provides recent evidence on the contribution of the spatial dimension to inequality and more specifically accounts for the impact of the changes in the territorial distribution of the population on the recent dynamics of income inequality. We use LIS harmonized microdata for a...

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Measuring food security using respondents' perception of food consumption adequacy

Migotto, Mauro; Davis, Benjamin; Caretto, Gero; Beegle, … - 2006

Food security is a complex and multi-dimensional phenomenon. As such, its measurement may entail and benefit from the combination of both ‘qualitative-subjective’ and ‘quantitative-objective’ indicators. Yet, the evidence on the external validity of subjectivetype information is scarce,...

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Changes in spatial income inequality in the Philippines: An exploratory analysis

Balisacan, Arsenio M.; Fuwa, Nobuhiko - 2004

The purpose of this paper is to establish some basic facts about income inequality in the Philippines, with a special focus on the importance of spatial income inequality. Despite major fluctuations in macroeconomic performances, income inequality remained relatively stable during the years...

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Accounting for private health care expenses in measures of nations' redistributive effort

Baird, Katherine - 2018

As health care costs rise, so too does the importance of assessing their incidence, and factoring these costs into measures of post-government income distribution. This paper contributes to this assessment by calculating the effect of government policy on the distribution of income by adjusting...

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Inequality in historical perspective

Jolly, Richard - 2006

Adam Smith, Tom Paine, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx were all bold and outspoken about the injustices of extreme inequality, nationally and internationally. Yet by almost every standard, global inequality has grown substantially since they were writing, and national income inequality also over...

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The Brazilian state's redistributive role: Changes and persistence at the beginning of the 21st century

Silveira, Fernando Gaiger; Palomo, Theo Ribas - 2023

State and to a net reduction in the final income Gini index by 15.9%. We conclude by arguing that further advancements …

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Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality

Hlásny, Vladimír; Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - 2020

Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their distributions. We study the prevalence of negative and zero incomes, and their implications for inequality and poverty measurement relying on 57 harmonized surveys covering 12 countries over the...

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