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in Portugal. It reports data on the distributions of income, labour earnings, and capital income, and on related features …
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We present three generalized, empirical, economic inequality definitions for the empirical dominance of the income … effects of the economic inequality definitions on location and dispersion of the income distribution. Log-normal, log …
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lack of progressiveness of the income tax system and the fact older people live in multi-generational households whilst …
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Despite two decades of rapid economic growth in Vietnam, child poverty remains a sizeable problem. This article investigates the distribution of child poverty and the existence of horizontal inequalities over a variety of groups in Vietnam using a multitude of poverty measures. Findings suggest...
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Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available to researchers nor easy to analyze. In this study we assess the performance of functional forms proposed by Kakwani (1980a) and Villasenor and Arnold(1989) to estimate the...
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LIMEW is a comprehensive measure that incorporates broader definitions of income, from wealth, government expenditures, and … taxes, than standard income and also includes the value of household production. We find that the elderly are much better … off relative to the non-elderly according to the LIMEW than according to the money income or the Census Bureau’s “Extended …
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The Income Reference Period (IRP), the measurement period of income, differs across micro-economic databases of … shape of the income distribution and derived distributional indices, such as the Gini index. Using employment histories of … of income is a requirement for the validity of distributional analyses. …
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The distribution of family income reflects the distribution of personal income and the composition of families. We … develop a non-parametric measure of the impact that changes in family income relationships have on the distribution of family … income. Using data from Annual Social and Economic Supplement (the March files) of the Current Population Survey (CPS) (1968 …
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We consider the links between Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and the distribution of income, as … for higherpaid employees, and led to an increase in income inequality. Thus, the more important aspects of new technology …
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