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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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inequality for policymakers and citizens to track. …
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The paper defines the Gini index as the sum of individual contributions where individual contributions are interpreted as the degree of diversity of each individual from all other members of society. Among various possible forms of individual contributions to the Gini found in the literature, we...
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We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food transfers, targeted housing and heating subsidies, public spending on education and health, and personal income, payroll, corporate income, property, and expenditure taxes. In both...
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