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The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a measure of social stress and aggregate income. We...
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traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty …
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Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … last years. This paper contributes with an analysis of interdependent multidimensional (IMD) poverty intensity of time and … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a …
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We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross … than those of lower poverty, lower inequality, or higher GDP per capita …
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better average living standards than otherwise similar districts: larger household consumption, lower poverty rate, and …
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influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for … migrants and local residents. Contrary to previous studies that report that the income poverty rate of migrant households is 1 ….5 times that of local resident households, we find relatively small differences in the poverty rates of migrants and local …
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This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for … them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty … measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty declined rapidly between 2003 and 2008 but fell only slightly between …
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