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Capitalist systems and income inequality

Ranaldi, Marco; Milanović, Branko - 2020

-personal inequality. We speculate on the emergence of homoploutic societies where income composition may be the same for all, but Gini …

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Social welfare, inequality and deprivation

Magdalou, Brice (contributor); Moyes, Patrick (contributor) - 2008

individuals and allocated to one arbitrary poorer individual. We identify the subclass of extended Gini social welfare functions … ; Inequality ; Deprivation ; Lorenz Dominance ; Extended Gini Social Welfare Functions …

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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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The inequality we want : how much is too much?

Krozer, Alice - 2017

A key aspect defining the contemporary income distribution is the (increasing) share the top holds compared to the rest. This paper shows that income concentration increases towards the very top of the distribution, while the shares the middle- and upper-middle-income groups hold remain stable...

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A new inequality measure that is sensitive to extreme values and asymmetries

McAleer, Michael; Ryu, Hang-keun; Slottje, Daniel Jonathan - 2017

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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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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Measuring and explaining the limited take-up of the housing benefit in the Netherlands

Rouwendal, Jan - 2002 - This version: March 14, 2002

It is well known that the take-up rate of the Dutch housing benefit and othermeans tested benefits is substantially below 100%. In order to measure non-take up oneusually has to simulate entitlement to the benefits. In this paper we take a closer look atthe quality of the simulation. We find...

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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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Estimating income inequality in China using grouped data and the generalized beta distribution

Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Prasada Rao, D. S.; Tang, Kam Ki - 2006

There are two main types of data sources of income distributions in China: household survey data and grouped data. Household survey data are typically available for isolated years and individual provinces. In comparison, aggregate or grouped data are typically available more frequently and...

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Global inequality: Recent evidence and trends

Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Prasada Rao, D. S.; … - 2007

This paper examines the nature and extent of global and regional income distribution and inequality using the most recent country level data on income distribution drawn from World Bank and UNU-WIDER studies for the period 1993-2000. The methodology used is a recently developed technique to fit...

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