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The Inequality We Want: How Much Is Too Much?
Krozer, Alice - 2017
A key aspect defining the contemporary income distribution is the (increasing) share the top holds compared to the rest. This paper shows that income concentration increases towards the very top of the distribution, while the shares the middle- and upper-middle-income groups hold remain stable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725481
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Sectoral Trends in Earnings Inequality and Employment : International Trade, Skill-Biased Technological Change, or Labour Market Institutions?
Thewissen, Stefan; Wang, Chen; van Vliet, Olaf - 2013
Current studies addressing the rise in inequality confine themselves to country-level developments. This paper delineates trends in earnings inequality and employment at the sectoral level for eight LIS countries between 1985-2005. Earnings inequality mainly manifests itself within rather than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014155368
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The Global Consumption and Income Project (GCIP): An Overview
Lahoti, Rahul; Jayadev, Arjun; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2016
the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011725447
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The empirics of the median voter: Democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class
Scervini, Francesco - 2009
The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution. According to the previous literature, it tests several assumptions finding interesting results: The positive relation between inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335331
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Social welfare, inequality and deprivation
Magdalou, Brice; Moyes, Patrick - 2008
We provide a characterization of the generalised satisfaction - in our terminology nondeprivation - quasi-ordering introduced by S.R. Chakravarty (Keio Economic Studies 34 (1997), 17-32) for making welfare comparisons based on the absence of deprivation. We show that the non-deprivation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335534
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The barycenter of the distribution and its application to the measurement of inequality: The balance of inequality, the Gini index, and the Lorenz curve
Di Maio, Giorgio - 2022
This paper introduces in statistics the notion of the barycenter of the distribution of a non-negative random variable Y with a positive finite mean μY and the quantile function Q(x). The barycenter is denoted by μX and defined as the expected value of the random variable X having the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013467160
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Assessing the social welfare effects of government transfer programs: Some international comparisons
Kakwani, Nanak; Wang, Xiaobing; Xu, Jing; Yue, Ximing - 2020
ication of a poverty line or particular poverty measures . The paper introduces three alternative principles of targeting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389663
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Is the Pareto-Lévy law a good representation of income distributions?
Dagsvik, John K.; Jia, Zhiyang; Vatne, Bjørn H.; Zhu, … - 2011
Mandelbrot (1960) proposed using the so-called Pareto-Lévy class of distributions as a framework for representing income distributions. We argue in this paper that the Pareto-Lévy distribution is an interesting candidate for representing income distribution because its parameters are easy to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335592
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Equity-regarding poverty measures: Differences in needs and the role of equivalence scales
Ebert, Udo - 2008
The paper investigates the definition of equity-regarding poverty measures when there are different household types in … the population. It derives the implications of a between-type regressive transfer principle for poverty measures, for the … choice of poverty lines and for the measurement of living standard. The role of equivalence scales which are popular in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335402
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Relative income distribution in six European countries: Market and disposable income
Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015
The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The outcome of this process entails relevant information about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335810