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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020
poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012172471
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Multidimensional Poverty Analysis : Looking for a Middle Ground
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Lugo, Maria Ana - 2012
Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing deprivations along multiple dimensions … multidimensional poverty, on the one hand, and a "dashboard" approach that looks only at marginal distributions, on the other. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550985
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Distributions in Motion : Economic Growth, Inequality, and Poverty Dynamics
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2012
least three different perspectives. A macroeconomic approach that relies on cross-country data on poverty, inequality, and … microeconomic approach, in particular, builds on the observation that growth, changes in poverty, and changes in inequality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012551640
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Lower and upper bounds of inequality of opportunity in emerging economies
Hufe, Paul; Peichl, Andreas; Weishaar, Daniel - 2019
Equality of opportunity is an important normative ideal that concerns politicians and the larger public alike. In spite of its wide acceptance, current estimation approaches in the literature suffer from severe data restrictions that lead to biased estimates of inequality of opportunity. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010163