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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262015

Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries

Corak, Miles - 2005

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267535

The Relationship between Income Inequality, Poverty and Globalisation

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

the causal relationships between income inequality, poverty and globalisation. Inequality is negatively correlated to … globalisation, and globalisation reduces poverty. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262026

Growth, Inequality and Poverty Relationships

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

benefit from economic growth. The linkage between growth, redistribution and poverty is also analysed. In the review of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262079

What do social scientists know about the benefits of marriage? : A review of quantitative methodologies

Ribar, David C. - 2004

This study critically reviews quantitative methods that have been employed and evidence that has been gathered to assess the benefits of marriage and consequences of other family structures. The study begins by describing theoretical models of the determinants of different well-being outcomes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261768

The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in empirical analysis of global income inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant factors along with quantification of their impacts and empirical results from different case studies are presented. These...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262018

Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262022

Effort and comparison income: experimental and survey evidence

Clark, Andrew E.; Masclet, David; Villeval, Marie-Claire - 2006

This paper considers the effect of status or relative income on work effort combining experimental evidence from a gift-exchange game with ISSP survey data. We find a consistent negative effect of others' incomes on individual effort in both datasets. The individual's rank in the income...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272020

The measurement of educational inequality: Achievement and opportunity

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Gignoux, Jérémie - 2011

This paper proposes two related measures of educational inequality: one for educational achievement and another for educational opportunity. The former is the simple variance (or standard deviation) of test scores. Its selection is informed by consideration of two measurement issues that have...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282300

Measuring richness and poverty: a micro data application to Europe and Germany

Peichl, Andreas; Schaefer, Thilo; Scheicher, Christoph - 2008

demonstrate the application of these new measures to analyze the development of poverty and richness over time in Germany, to … compare Germany to many other European countries and to investigate the impact of tax reforms on poverty and richness. Using …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268964