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Contributions of taxes and benefits to vertical, horizontal and redistributive effects
Urban, Ivica - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ
acknowledged approaches in the study of income inequality and redistribution: Kakwani’s (1984) decomposition of redistributive … effect into vertical and horizontal effects and Lerman and Yitzhaki’s (1985) decomposition of marginal changes in income … inequality into contributions of different income components. The roles of taxes and benefits in achieving vertical, horizontal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583888
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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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Inequality Decompositions ?A Reconciliation
Cowell, Frank A.; Fiorio, Carlo V. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition methods can be reconciled with regression … approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches using an analysis of the changing contributions to inequality in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999032
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Race, poverty, and deprivation in South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The aim of this paper is to explain why poverty and material deprivation in South Africa are significantly higher among those of African descent than among whites. To do so, we estimate the conditional levels of poverty and deprivation Africans would experience had they the same characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366282
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“Leftist”, “Rightist” and Intermediate Decompositions of Poverty: Variations with an Application to China from 1990 to 2003
Bresson, Florent; Labar, Kelly - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2007
This paper investigates the influence of invariance axioms in the decomposition of observed poverty variations into … growth and inequality effects. After a complete and critical review of the invariance axioms suggested in the literature, we … decomposition are contingent to the invariance axiom choices whilst other are robust to changes in ethical preferences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413418
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Poverty among minorities in the United States: Explaining the racial poverty gap for Blacks and Latinos
Gradin, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
The two largest minorities in the United States, African Americans and people of Hispanic origin, show official poverty rates that are at least twice as high as those among non-Hispanic Whites. These similarly high poverty rates among minorities are, however, the result of different combinations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413429
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Conventional wisdom states that fiscal policy redistributes little in Latin America. Lower tax revenues and – above all – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the distribution of all transfers combined (cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275
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Multidimensional affluence: Theory and applications to Germany and the US
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366276
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Polarization, inequality and growth: The Indian experience
Motiram, Sripad; Sarma, Nayantara - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
disparities. Comparing polarization and inequality, we find similarities, but also some differences. Our results therefore … underscore the importance of studying polarization as distinct from traditional inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366278
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Inequality, growth and public spending in Central, East and Southeast Europe
Holzner, Mario - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The article analyses the joint determinants of inequality and growth with a special emphasis on public spending … inequality and growth, as more generally government expenditures seem to act counter-cyclically and inequality reducing. Also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366281