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capture poverty in other dimensions. Unfortunately, the available international indicators of multidimensional poverty suffer … indicator of multidimensional poverty, called the Global Correlation Sensitive Poverty Index (G-CSPI), which addresses most of … first time we were able to conduct a comparative analysis between income and multidimensional poverty, relying on the same …
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SES and health capture different aspects, we use this information to explore the age increase in health inequality and to … direction that the age increase in health inequality is primarily caused by a reversed causality going from health to annual … the age variation in health inequality seem to have increased over time, and during the 1980th the age variation was …
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This study uses the Swedish register of prescribed drugs, merged with the Survey of Living Conditions (the ULF), to analyze the socioeconomic gradient in drug utilization. It finds a significant education gradient (but no income gradient) in individual drug utilization. Whereas the education...
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inequality, which in turn limits the usefulness of such decompositions for policy purposes. …
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What change in the distribution of a population's health preserves the level of inequality? The answer to this … analogous question in the context of income inequality lies somewhere between a uniform and a proportional change. These polar … positions represent the absolute and relative inequality equivalence criterion (IEC), respectively. A bounded health variable …
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exploration of the pathways through which socioeconomic background relates to income-related health inequality. This novel … heterogeneity and smoking persistence, showing that the largest contributions to the pro-rich smoking inequality come from years of … standard approach. Once applying the suggested extension, socioeconomic background contributes indirectly to the inequality …
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-related health inequality. …
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-assessed health and health inequality in the Swedish population. …
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directions are linked through a 2m-dimensional copula. The approach is detailed in the case of a bivariate decomposition. We …
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In this paper, we study the effectiveness of carry trade strategies during and after the financial crisis using a flexible approach to modeling currency returns. We decompose the currency returns into multiplicative sign and absolute return components, which exhibit much greater predictability...
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