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When estimating regional inequality, many economists use inequality indices weighted by the regions' shares in the national population. Although this approach is widespread, its adequacy has not received attention in the regional science literature. This paper proves that such approach is...
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This report surveys a dozen international comparative studies of poverty, income distribution and the elderly in OECD … fare? What is the mix between public and private sources of income? Do the elderly poor remain poor? There is also a …
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Die Studie untersucht die Einkommen und die Einkommensverteilung der Freien Berufe anhand der Mikrozensusergebnisse für …-Selbständige) gegenübergestellt. Dem Einkommen und der Einkommensverteilung der selbständigen Frauen in Freien Berufen im Vergleich zu den Männern ist … Mikrozensusangaben der insgesamt 800.000 Befragten aus einer Sonderauswertung für die Freien Berufe werden Einkommen und …
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Extreme Value Theory is increasingly used in the modelling of financial time series. The non-normality of stock returns leads to the search for alternative distributions that allows skewness and leptokurtic behavior. One of the most used distributions is the Pareto Distribution because it allows...
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This paper examines the determinants of economic growth, income inequality, and their relationship in the context of … capital have a disequalizing relationship with income distribution. This study also indicates that economic growth has a … significantly equalizing link with income distribution. In addition, the current level of inequality and growth is positively …
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This paper examines the poverty and inequality pattern, income and characteristics of households in the Program 135-II … in the poorest communes was achieved by the income growth. The inequality increased, thereby slightly raising the poverty … incidence. Poverty is sensitive to economic growth. However, the elasticity of poverty with respect to income growth tends to …
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populations. From the eighteenth to the twentieth century, coffee cultivation represented the basis of household income. Changes …
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third of the income gap between the majority and all other ethnic minorities groups. Importantly, it implies that poverty of …
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This paper investigates socio-economic factors affecting household income among ethnic minorities in North … depended on agricultural activities, with very limitted access to nonfarm employment. Factors affecting household income were … assets in improving household income. Also, some community characteristics such as the presence of means of transportation …
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This study examines the asset and income pattern of poor ethnic minorities in Northern Mountains of Vietnam using data … Household Living Standard Survey (VHLSS) 2010. The poor ethnic minorities in Northern Mountains have lower assets and income … than ethnic minorities in other regions. Their income is mainly from crops and livestock. Compared with Kinh/Hoa and ethnic …
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