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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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German male income volatility 1984 to 2008

Bartels, Charlotte; Bönke, Timm - 2010

Deploying data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) we analyze the variability of individual earnings and equivalent household income. Permanent and transitory variances of male income over the period 1984-2008 are estimated for Old German Laender in order to determine their importance...

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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture

Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999

A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...

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Gini decompositions and Gini elasticities : on measuring the importance of income sources and population subgroups for income inequality

Jurkatis, Simon; Strehl, Wolfgang - 2014

This paper points to flaws in Gini decompositions by income sources and population subgroups and to common pitfalls in … this framework Gini elasticities may provide the only meaningful way to examine the relevance of income sources or … in the Gini coefficient and provide a coherent method to decompose the Gini trend by income sources. We add to the recent …

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Better off or more apart? : empirically testing welfare and inequality dominance criteria

Beach, Charles M. - 2022

This paper provides the tools and procedures for empirically implementing several dominance criteria for social welfare comparisons and broad income inequality comparisons. Dominance criteria are expressed in terms of vectors of quantile ordinates based on income shares or quantile means....

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A nifty fix for published distribution statistics : simplified distribution-free statistical inference

Beach, Charles M. - 2021

This paper applies the tool box measures of disaggregative income inequality characterization and the statistical methodology of Beach (2021) to percentile-based distribution statistics such as quintile income shares and decile means typically published by official statistical agencies. It...

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A useful empirical tool box for distributional analysis

Beach, Charles M. - 2021

This paper offers a tool box of disaggregative measures of distributional change, including population shares, income shares, quantile mean incomes and relative mean incomes of different income groups. It highlights median-based measures along with quintiles and deciles. It also offers formulas...

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Combining panel data sets with attrition and refreshment samples

Hirano, Keisuke; Imbens, Guido; Ridder, Geert; Rubin, … - 1998

With panel data important issues can be resolved that can not beaddressed with cross--sectional data. A major drawback is that paneldata suffer from more severe missing data problems. Adding a sampleconsisting of new units randomly drawn from the original populationas replacements for units who...

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On a simple survey measure of individual risk aversion

Hartog, Joop; Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada; Jonker, Nicole - 2000

We ask individuals for their reservation price of a specified lotteryand deduce their Arrow-Pratt measure of risk aversion.This allows direct testing of common hypotheses on risk attitudes inthree datasets. We find that risk aversion indeed fallswith income and wealth. Entrepreneurs are less...

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Empirical relevance of the Hillman condition and comparative advantage

Hinloopen, Jeroen; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2004

We analyze the empirical violation of the Hillman condition, a necessary and sufficient condition for the correspondence between comparative advantage and pre-trade relative prices. Our comprehensive data set allows us to investigate the Hillman condition for virtually all countries of the...

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