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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924809
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004151
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The Value of Commitment: Marriage Choice in the Presence of Costly Divorce
Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
marriage ceremony. The literature on coresidential relationships typically assumes that the formal marriage contract offers … relationship that has been “sealed” by marriage. The goal of this paper is to develop a simple dynamic model that can explain the … existence of marriage contract. The model assumes that the only difference between marriage and non-marital cohabitation is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468155
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Costly Divorce and Marriage Rates
Yurko, Anna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper develops a model of choice between marriage and cohabitation to study the effect of divorce costs on … marriage decision. The paired agents are heterogeneous, the utility is non-transferable, and break up and divorce decisions are … efficiently). The model seeks to reconcile the conflicting empirical evidence on the relationship between marriage rates and …
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To estimate an equation explaining the determinants of Dowry
Subhani, Muhammad Imtiaz; Afza, Sarwat - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
, wife height, wet land, dry land, years of marriage and years of education for women & men on these decisions. According to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529257
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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity. Societal practice is the main challenge this concept...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836955
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An Unbiased Pareto Improvement strategy for poverty alleviation
Zaman, Md Monowaruz - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
There are historical and institutional reasons behind our economic problems like poverty and environmental damage but it is not acceptable if they persist in years to come. The strategic use of information by individual economic agents establishes a biasing effect on our economy. In case of...
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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619834
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The single-mindedness of labor unions when transfers are not Lump-Sum
canegrati, emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I analyse a labour market where the wage is endogenously determined according to an Efficient Bargaining process between a firm and a labour union whose members are partitioned into two social groups: the old and the young. Furthermore, I exploit the Single-Mindedness theory, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789327