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World income inequality databases : an assessment of WIID and SWIID
Jenkins, Stephen - 2014
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and...
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Evolution of inequality in Nigeria : a tale of falling inequality, rising poverty and regional heterogeneity
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...
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Inequality of opportunity in household income, China 2002-2018
Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn; Sicular, Terry - 2021
This study contributes to the literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in China by covering a longer and more recent span of time, employing better measures of given characteristics, and analyzing IOp for household income per capita with comparisons to individual income. Furthermore, we...
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Regional income stratification in unified Germany using a Gini decomposition approach
Frick, Joachim R. (contributor); Goebel, Jan (contributor) - 2005
unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the … regional concentration of future transfers from East to West Germany. -- inequality decomposition ; Gini ; stratification …This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after …
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Measuring inequality using censored data : a multiple imputation approach
Jenkins, Stephen; Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
To measure income inequality with right censored (topcoded) data, we propose multiple imputation for censored observations using draws from Generalized Beta of the Second Kind distributions to provide partially synthetic datasets analyzed using complete data methods. Estimation and inference...
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Pareto models, top incomes, and recent trends in UK income inequality
Jenkins, Stephen - 2016
since the mid-1990s are robust to the way in which tax data are employed. The Gini coefficient for gross individual income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521081
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Measurement error in earnings data: replication of Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek’s mixture model approach to combining survey and register data
Jenkins, Stephen; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2021
Meijer, Rohwedder, and Wansbeek (MRW, Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2012) develop methods for prediction of a single earnings figure per worker from mixture factor models fitted using earnings data from multiple linked data sources. MRW apply their method using parameter estimates...
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An integrated approach for top-corrected ginis
Bartels, Charlotte; Metzing, Maria - 2017
distribution. We combine the benefits of the two data sources and develop an integrated approach for top-corrected Gini …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613157
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A different perspective on the evolution of UK income inequality
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2018
The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...
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Global earnings inequality, 1970-2015
Hammar, Olle; Waldenström, Daniel - 2017
, primarily during the 2000s, when the global Gini coefficient dropped nearly 10 points and the earnings share of the world …
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