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This paper empirically applies the statistical approaches to the phenomenon of polarization generated by Esteban, et al. (1999) and Gradín (2000) in order to quantify the evolution of the middle class in Mexico and the role of various household attributes in the formation of groups during...
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and negative relationship between inequality and share of nutritional consumption as reflected in the consumption of food …. Finally the paper looks at the empirical relationship between inequality and consumption across districts within states of … India. The hypotheses that inequality impacts consumption patterns via status effect cannot be rejected. In fact the impact …
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This paper presents a nonparametric analysis of the impact of the 2008 crisis on earnings distribution in Turkey. Using micro-level data from the Household Labor Force Survey (2004-2011), I show that the crisis has operated most visibly above the upper quartile of the earnings distribution. I...
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This article uses data from the 1994-2001 waves of the European Community Household Panel to study economic inequality … related features of inequality, such as age, employment status, educational attainment, marital status and economic mobility …. It also documents changes in inequality from 1994 to 2001, a period of economic expansion in Portugal. The statistical …
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Using panel data for the Netherlands, Germany and the UK for seven years in the late 1980s and early 1990s the paper examines the comparative evidence on longitudinal income and persistent poverty for the three countries. Elaborating on the existing methodological literature of income dynamics,...
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inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels …
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connection between education and economic inequality. …
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case, interesting interpretations would be arriving on the possible interactions among anthropometry and inequality which …
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The hypothesis is that Pareto and Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency have an aspect of sustainability in relation to inequality …. The analysis finds efficient situations reached increasing inequality as diminishing in the long term effective demand in …
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This paper presents an integration between the normative approach of Dalton-Atkinson-Sen to inequality measurement with … the positive approach related to the statistical dispersion or the generalized entropy family of inequality indexes. Given … weights represents the marginal social value of the individuals in the society, our approach selects a particular inequality …
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