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On the re-assessment of inequality in Indonesia: household survey or national account?
Yusuf, Arief Anshory - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
data (SUSENAS) and from nationalaccount (I-O table) and its connection on the issue of inequality in Indonesia.Since non … the cal-culation of inequality in Indonesia. This paper, then applies an approach toreconciling household survey and … standard indicator of inequalityin Indonesia. The results suggests that while inequality in rural Indonesia doesnot change much …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005786983
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The poverty and inequality nexus in Ghana: a decomposition analysis of household expenditure components
Novignon, Jacob; Nonvignon, Justice; Mussa, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
The study examined the linkages between inequality in household expenditure components and total inequality and poverty …, reducing within-component inequality significantly reduces overall poverty and inequality in Ghana, compared to between …-component inequality. Specifically, inequality in education and health expenditure components were the largest contributors to overall …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252595
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Trust in government and its effect on preferences for income redistribution and perceived tax burden
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper explores how a trust in government shared by neighbors is associated with individual preferences for income redistribution and individual perceptions regarding income tax burden. Three measures for trust in government are used: “trust in ministries and government agencies”,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258693
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Generalizations of the FKKM Theorem and Ky-Fan Minimax Inequality, with Applications to Maximal Elements, Price Equilibrium, and Complementarity
Tian, Guoqiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1990
Topics,” pp. 151–156, North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1979; and Math. Ann.266, 1984, 519–537) and the Ky Fan minimax inequality by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258975
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Is Urban Economic Growth Inclusive in India?
Tripathi, Sabyasachi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
urban inequality, a reduction in urban poverty, and a lower level of overall inclusive growth of a city. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259020
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Sustainable Heterogeneity as the Unique Socially Optimal Allocation for Almost All Social Welfare Functions
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The socially optimal allocation has been regarded to be unspecifiable because of utility’s interpersonal incomparability, Arrow’s general possibility theorem, and other factors. This paper examines this problem by focusing not on the social welfare function but instead on the utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259529
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The Relationship between the Equivalence Scale and the Inequality Index and Its Impact on the Measurement of Income Inequality
Okamoto, Masato - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
considering the equivalence scale’s relationship to the generalised entropy measures, which was studied by Coulter, et al. (1992 … generalised entropy measures. Additionally, using a mixture of log-normal distributions approach, five factors are shown to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259680
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Sustainable Heterogeneity in Exogenous Growth Models: The Socially Optimal Distribution by Government’s Intervention
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the socially optimal allocation by focusing not on the social welfare function but instead on the utility possibility frontier in exogenous growth models with a heterogeneous population. A unique balanced growth path was found on which all of the optimality conditions of all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259748
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Has urban economic growth in Post-Reform India been pro-poor between 1993-94 and 2009-10?
Tripathi, Sabyasachi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper empirically tests whether urban economic growth has been pro-poor in the post reform India. The study uses data from the three rounds of quinquennial household survey of urban monthly per capita consumer expenditure (MPCE) carried out by National Sample Survey Organization (NSSO) in...
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Inequality, social conflict and unions in America
Lettieri, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
A comparison of the 2007-08 crisis with that of 1929 showed its extreme gravity, but it also may have implied that the old harmful mistakes would not be repeated. After four years, the crisis has not been solved and it even threatens to worsen. Neo-conservative Republicans claim that this is...
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