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respect to older ones. We include new measures of temporary work and intergenerational inequality in the IEWB, and analyse its … inequality, which was more pronounced in Lombardy. …
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The paper provides an examination into the measures of multidimensional inequality proposed in the past few years …
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This paper frames growth incidence analysis within the logic of social impact evaluation understood as an assessment of variations in individual and social outcomes attributable to shocks and policies. It uses recentered influence function (RIF) regression to link the growth incidence curve...
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indicator is based on the fact, that (1) basic food needs reflect an ultimate necessity, (2) food expenditure is highly … hardship increases. For these reasons we believe this to be an objective indicator for the sacrifice in the standard of living …
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Demographic disparities between the rates of occurrence of an adverse economic outcome can be observed to be increasing even as general social improvements supposedly lead towards the elimination of the adverse outcome in question. Scanlan (2006) noticed this tendency and developed a...
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choice of welfare indicator, poverty line and purchasing power parity exchange rates, equivalence scales, data sources, and …
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characterized by increasing income inequality and poverty. An axiomatically modified Datt-Ravallion decomposition, that separates … changes in poverty rates into mean and inequality components, will illustrate how each of them has contributed to those … changes. Contrary to the claims of much of the recent cross-country literature, income inequality does not appear stable in …
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The study of multidimensional deprivation has become one of the most relevant lines of research in the analysis of low-income households. The search for significant relationships between multidimensional deprivation and income poverty has been a central issue and most empirical studies have...
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as well off as he could be by undertaking inter-period income transfers. There is long-term ex-post inequality of …
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