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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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Inequality, imperfect competition and fiscal policy
2017
We build a New Keynesian model with imperfectly competitive goods markets and heterogeneous people and examine their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902288
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‘Williamson's Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter-Regional Inequality
Gluschenko, Konstantin - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943787
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Maximin Envy-Free Division of Indivisible Items
Brams, Steven; Kilgour, Marc; Klamler, Christian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Assume that two players have strict rankings over an even number of indivisible items. We propose algorithms to find allocations of these items that are maximin—maximize the minimum rank of the items that the players receive—and are envy-free and Pareto-optimal if such allocations exist. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210469
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Equal distribution or equal payoffs? Reciprocity and inequality aversion in the investment game
Rodriguez-lara, Ismael - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
We report experimental evidence on second-movers' behavior in the investment game (also known as the trust game) when there exists endowment heterogeneity. Using a within-subject analysis, we investigate whether second-movers have a tendency to be reciprocal (i.e., they return to first movers at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212781
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Poverty Lines, What are they telling us?
Bronfman, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
Global and local Poverty has been subject of study since early times, now a day, it seems like poverty alleviation is one of the most important and complex issues countries and regions are facing, and dealing with. None the less, poverty measurements lack of standardization and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212958
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Designing Matching Mechanisms under General Distributional Constraints
Goto, Masahiro; Kojima, Fuhito; Kurata, Ryoji; Tamura, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this paper, we consider two-sided, many-to-one matching problems where agents in one side of the market (schools) impose some distributional constraints (e.g., a maximum quota for a set of schools), and develop a strategyproof mechanism that can handle a very general class of distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271676
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Profil de Privations au Cameroun : Une analyse combinée Pauvreté et Exclusion sociale
Miamo Wendji, Clovis - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
In this study, we analyze the privations welfare in Cameroon considering poverty and social exclusion. The framework provided by the capability approach and construction of indicators of poverty and social exclusion by the fuzzy method from ECAM III survey data shows that the overall level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011275134
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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 in Ghana. Using micro data from the sixth round of the Ghana Living Standards Survey conducted in 2012/2013, marginal effects and elasticities were computed for both within-and...
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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