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This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … inequality in a more general context. Thus, it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period in …
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This paper describes the long-term global trends in education inequality since 1870. Inequality in years of schooling …. Within countries, we find evidence of an inverted U-shape curve for human capital inequality over time, namely a Kuznets … curve for human capital. At the global level, the world inequality in human capital has followed a similar trajectory, first …
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The scope of this paper is to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Gini index by providing the original formulae. Corrado Gini introduced his index for the first time in a 1912 book published in Italian under the name of “Variabilità e Mutabilità” (Variability and Mutability). This...
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This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year …="CR31">2003</CitationRef>), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, <CitationRef CitationID … the observation period. This makes it difficult to predict the impact of the income accounting period on inequality in a …
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and men). Additionally, we obtained no significant inequality effects after national trade reforms. Copyright Springer …
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In this paper we measure inequality of opportunity in daycare and preschool services in Brazil. For this purpose, we … al. (<CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2009</CitationRef>) to measure inequality in basic opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean …
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Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …
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This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … inequality is at first positive and then may be negative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with the …
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This article provides a brief overview of the key issues in inequality measurement and has been prepared for inclusion …
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