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household primary income inequality and disposable income inequality, redistribution from transfers and income taxes, and the …. LIS data allow us to decompose the trajectory of the Gini coefficient from primary to disposable income inequality in … LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Income Inequality (LLBIFR Dataset on Income Inequality 2017) allows …
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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...
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-- welfare states ; social income transfers ; inequality ; Gini coefficient ; LIS …
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In the distributive analysis, the constant relative inequality aversion utility function is a standard tool for ethical … judgements of income distributions. The sole parameter ε of this function expresses a society’s aversion to inequality. However … inequality aversion utility function using datasets available from the Luxembourg Income Study Database. We utilise the method of …
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This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …
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the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …
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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 …
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consumption distribution, poverty and inequality for the world and specific country aggregates. …
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Family 500 +) on inequality and poverty. The analysis is based on micro-level household data from the Luxembourg Income Study … (LIS) and Statistics Poland. We examine the changes in various indicators of inequality and poverty (Gini index, subjective … and relative poverty rates) and their decomposition. We find evidence that the program substantially reduces inequality …
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investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …
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