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Inequality trends and dynamics in India: The bird's-eye and the granular perspectives
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2018
India today is achieving per capita growth rates that are historically unprecedented. Poverty reduction has also accelerated. There is concern, however, that this growth is being accompanied by rising inequality. We report on a research project that examines inequality trends and dynamics at the...
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Monetary inequality among households in Togo: An illustration based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient using the Shapley value approach
Noglo, Yawo Agbényégan - 2014
decomposition of the Gini index through Shapley's approach, within-group inequality is greater than between-group inequality. These …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010494227
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Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality: An application to Mozambique
Gradín, Carlos - 2018
mass at each point of the distribution (using the Recentered Influence Function). The decomposition is shown to verify …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943867
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Lofty pine and clinging vine: The educational 'Great Gatsby Curve' and the role of house prices
You, Jing; Ding, Xinxin; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Wang, … - 2015
0.165 to 0.303). Decomposition analysis indicates the existence of glass-ceiling effects for females and rural offspring …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011440690
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Earnings inequality and the changing nature of work: Evidence from Labour Force Survey data of Bangladesh
Bidisha, Sayema Haque; Mahmood, Tanveer; Rahman, Mahir A. - 2021
inequality where the decomposition analysis shows that earnings structure effect rather than characteristics effect plays a key …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424171
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The dynamics of inequality change in a highly dualistic economy: Honduras, 1991 - 2007
Klasen, Stephan; Otter, Thomas; Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319838
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Inequality by population groups and income sources: Accounting for inequality changes in Spain during the recession
Gradín, Carlos - 2019
I discuss a new approach which decomposes inequality into the contributions of population groups by income sources. I … estimate a matrix with rows and columns which indicate different population groups and income sources respectively, with each … to analyse the contributions of groups and sources to the trend in inequality over time (or between distributions …
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Economic and non-economic returns to Communist Party membership in Viet Nam
Markussen, Thomas - 2018
Single-party political systems exist in a number of countries, such as China and Viet Nam. In these countries, party membership is potentially an important source of economic and social status. This paper investigates these effects and the mechanisms behind them. In particular, we use household-...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011943853
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Estimating the distribution of household wealth in South Africa
Chatterjee, Aroop; Czajka, Léo; Gethin, Amory - 2020
document major inconsistencies between available data sources, in particular regarding the measurement of dividends, corporate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424032
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Trends in global inequality using a new integrated dataset
Gradín, Carlos - 2021
dataset that aggregates standardized country income distributions at the percentile level estimated from various sources in …
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