Similar Search Results

Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005

Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2007

has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this … lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India …, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268735

Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2009

Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324274

A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261971

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 inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...

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

Accounting for Income Distribution Trends : A Density Function Decomposition Approach

Jenkins, Stephen P.; van Kerm, Philippe - 2004

This paper develops methods for decomposing changes in the income distribution using subgroup decompositions of the income density function. Overall changes are related to changes in subgroup shares and changes in subgroup densities, where the latter are broken down further using elementary...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276944

Evaluating dominance ranking of PSID incomes by various household attributes

Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Heshmati, Almas - 2005

control for many individual/family specific attributes, such as age, gender, education, number of children, work and marital …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267644

Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272949

Inequalities and Their Measurement

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

inequality in skills, education, opportunities, happiness, health, wealth, and others. The direct and indirect effects of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261969

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

Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries

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 the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262053

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last