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This paper studies poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean from a multidimensional perspective, exploiting the …
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Applying the small-area estimation methods to Cambodia data, we decompose the total inequality in wealth (consumption … decomposition exercise based on the generalized entropy measures. We find that a sizable proportion of wealth inequality is due to … between-location inequality, whereas health inequality is mainly due to within-location inequality. Copyright Springer Science …
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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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