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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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Tax-benefit revealed redistributive preferences over time: Ireland 1987 - 2005

Bargain, Olivier; Keane, Claire - 2010

By inverting Saez (2002)'s model of optimal income taxation, we characterize the redistributive preferences of the Irish government between 1987 and 2005. The (marginal) social welfare function revealed by this approach is consistently comparable over time and show great stability despite...

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The insights and illusions of consumption measurements

Battistin, Erich; De Nadai, Michele; Krishnan, Nandini - 2020

While household well-being derives from long-term average rates of consumption, welfare comparisons typically rely on shorter-duration survey measurements. We develop a new strategy to identify the distribution of these long-term rates by leveraging a large-scale randomization in Iraq that...

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An age perspective on economic well-being and social protection in nine OECD countries

Dang, Thai Thanh; Immervoll, Herwig; Mantovani, Daniela; … - 2006

This paper quantifies the economic well-being of different age groups and the extent of their reliance on incomes from public and private sources. The aim is to establish how social benefits, and the taxes needed to finance them, affect income levels and disparities across different age groups....

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Financing social security : simulating different welfare state systems for Germany

Dieckhoener, Caroline; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

In Germany, there is an ongoing debate about how to increase the efficiency of the social security system and especially its financing. The aim of this paper is to simulate different financing systems for Germany. The introduction of a Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system...

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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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Recent trends in top income shares in the USA : reconciling estimates from march CPS and IRS tax return data

Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, Stephen - 2009

Although the majority of research on US income inequality trends is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax return data reports substantially higher levels of inequality and faster growing trends. We show that these apparently inconsistent estimates are largely...

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