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Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … extent to which estimates of Gini coefficients from the WIID Companion are consistent with and add to the prevailing … understanding of inequality in Ghana. To this end, we review the primary source of data for the three main Gini series on Ghana …
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This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there...
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witnessing a decline of inequality as measured by the Gini index, even if once accounted for the fact that inequality increased …
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By using the five waves of the China Household Income Project surveys conducted during 1988-2013, this paper investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a small amount. The main reason for the rise in income...
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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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remained stable from 2010 to 2022, absolute inequality, as measured by the absolute Gini coefficient, increased, indicating a …
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The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During 1975-2010, global bipolarization declined...
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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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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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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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