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This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …
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This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
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This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
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While there are different estimates of poverty in Mexico, there is general agreement that poverty is widespread, and … that the reduction of poverty should be a key area of focus for the new Administration. Beyond lack of income, poverty is a … policies have been implemented in Mexico, as elsewhere, to reduce poverty and improve the well-being of the population. This …
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This module illustrates how Generalised Lorenz (GL) Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options, in many of the cases where ordinary Lorenz curves fail to work After...
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. To that end we analyse the Dutch civil servants' pension fund in the Dutch dynamic microsimulation model NEDYMAS. …
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This paper develops a dynamic microsimulation model with static ageing to assess the consequences of the assumptions … modèle de microsimulation STATION. in: Pestieau, P., L. Gevers, V. Ginsburgh, E. Schokkaert, B. Cantillon, Réflexions sur l …
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Possible future trends in the development of pension adequacy are usually simulated using dynamic microsimulation … these fundamental relations should be able to capture the long-term trends in inequality among pensioners. The results of … validate dynamic microsimulation models. This paper uses such a simple model to show some general relations between indexation …
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inequality in several parts: we will distinguish 11 different benefits and several income taxes and social contributions in our … empirical investigation across countries. First, we use LIS data to analyze income inequality and the redistributive effect of … we decompose income inequality through several taxes and transfers. We analyze the redistributive effect of several …
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redistribution in a comparative setting. We use micro-data from the Luxembourg Income Study to examine household market inequality … increase in primary household inequality in all 20 countries over the last 25 years (except Ireland). In most countries, the … income inequality, although they appear to have become less effective in doing so since the mid-1990s. We find that the …
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