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Pencavel, John H. - 2011

Real wage index numbers have been used to measure movements in the standard of living of the typical worker. This paper … describes some of these indicators for the United States and England. A new real wage index is proposed that resembles the … sliding scale used to adjust wages in certain industries years ago. This new index is applied to U.S. manufacturing industry …

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A New Framework for the Analysis of Inequality

Cunha, Flavio - 2008

This paper presents a new framework for analyzing inequality that moves beyond the anonymity postulate. We estimate the determinants of sectoral choice and the joint distributions of outcomes across sectors. We determine which components of realized earnings variability are due to uncertainty...

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Poverty's Deconstruction : Beyond the Visible

Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2017

In contrast to his contribution to other areas, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay's contributions to our understanding of poverty are often thought of as indirect consequences of the main themes of his work. Yet in more than 15 published papers Gangopadhyay directly takes on poverty, including its...

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Identification and Estimation of Distributional Impacts of Interventions Using Changes in Inequality Measures

Firpo, Sergio - 2010

This paper presents semiparametric estimators of distributional impacts of interventions (treatment) when selection to the program is based on observable characteristics. Distributional impacts of a treatment are calculated as differences in inequality measures of the potential outcomes of...

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Robust Inequality Comparisons

Aaberge, Rolf - 2010

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such situations Aaberge (2009) introduced two...

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Inequality Measurement and Tax/Transfer Policy

Apps, Patricia F. - 2020

We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...

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Getting the Measure of Inequality

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2022

I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality â that it has changed little over the last 30 years â and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a number of fundamental issues in inequality measurement related to inequality concepts (e.g., inequality...

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The Inequality-Growth Plateau

Henderson, Daniel J. - 2015

We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require an a priori assumption on the underlying functional form. This approach reveals a plateau completely missed by commonly used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy...

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Testing for Poverty Dominance : An Application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2021

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across...

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Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil

Robalino, David A. - 2011

We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in...

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