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distribution. We combine the benefits of the two data sources and develop an integrated approach for top-corrected Gini …
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This paper scrutinizes the conventional wisdom about trends in UK income inequality and also places contemporary inequality in a much longer historical perspective. We combine household survey and income tax data to provide better coverage of all income ranges from the bottom to the very top. We...
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regressions and decompositions of standard Gini indices. Although popular opinion and standard Gini indices suggest Colombia to …'s or Ecuador's. In 2010, educational achievement explains over 10.9 percent of the Gini score in Colombia, 6.3 percent in …
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This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...
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the obtained characterization results to arrange the members of two different generalized Gini families of inequality … subfamily of the generalized Gini families and thus the least restrictive social preferences required to reach unambiguous …
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develop a procedure for calculating the aggregate social stress and the Gini coefficient of the merged population. We show … aggregate income-based social stress, and their mean income. This result carries over to the calculation of the Gini coefficient …
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also find several occasions where the distinction between the raw Gini and the Gini adjusted for certain characteristics …
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properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … measure to supplement, but not to replace, the Gini that measures more accurately the inherent asymmetries and extreme values …
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also find several occasions where the distinction between the raw Gini and the Gini adjusted for certain characteristics …
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strategies turn out to depart from the Gini coefficient; one requires higher degree of downside and the other higher degree of … upside inequality aversion than what is exhibited by the Gini coefficient. Furthermore, it is demonstrated that the sequences …
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