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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600750
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Individual Diversity and the Gini Decomposition
Ceriani, Lidia; Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2014
The paper defines the Gini index as the sum of individual contributions where individual contributions are interpreted as the degree of diversity of each individual from all other members of society. Among various possible forms of individual contributions to the Gini found in the literature, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878125
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The Impact of Household Capital Income on Income Inequality: A Factor Decomposition Analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017371
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Happiness, deprivation and the alter ego
Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
The paper focuses on satisfaction with income and proposes a utility model built on two value systems, the `Ego' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to one own past and future income - and the `Alter' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512113
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality: A factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna; Grabka, Markus M.; Schwarze, Johannes - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro … contribution to overall inequality in relation to its share in disposable income. This applies to Germany and the USA in particular …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413428
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Two classes of generalized deprivation indexes
Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The paper uses two particular formulations of the Gini index to derive two different relative deprivation measures. We then generalize the formulation of these measures following Donaldson and Weymark (1980) and Berrebi and Silber (1985) and show how these generalizations can be considered as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193073
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Life satisfaction and income inequality
Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
Do people care about income inequality and does income inequality affect subjective wellbeing? Welfare theories can … predict either a positive or a negative impact of income inequality on subjective well-being and empirical research has found … such empirical heterogeneity. Using a very large sample of world citizens we test the consistency of income inequality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008782825