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The paper addresses the issue of the accuracy of standard-of-living measurements using household survey data. First, it highlights the fact that lighter data collection processes in some developing countries have added to measurement errors in consumption and income aggregates measurement...
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In this paper, we apply a multidimensional decomposition of the Gini index to the active and retired populations in … France. The multi-decomposition of an inequality measure allows us to put into perspective the role of social spending and …
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This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1990s …
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The purpose of our paper is to derive instructive analytics on how to account for differentials in demographic variables, and in particular mortality, when performing welfare comparisons over time. The idea is to “correct” in various ways estimated income distribution measures for “sample...
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popular concentration index. We then implement the decomposition method of the indices and evaluate the contribution of the …
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This chapter aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...
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The article seeks to analyse economic transfers resulting from the controversial implementation of rising maintenance obligations for retirement institution accommodation. The analysis of a sample of legal decisions concerning 305 people liable to maintenance obligations show that the setting of...
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“effort” variables. The decomposition is applied to the distribution of male earnings in urban Brazil, in 1996. The five …
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. In the specific context of the measurement of inequality of opportunity, this implies that the decomposition of overall …
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