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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
a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the role of income and wealth as dimensions of multidimensional well … the country ranking depending on the measure. While in Germany wealth predominantly contributes to the intensity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366276
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American baby-losers? Robust indirect comparison of affluence across generations
Michelangeli, Alessandra; Peluso, Eugenio; Trannoy, Alain - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
” and the key-property of concavity of consumption with respect to wealth. Our application on US data for the period 1980 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967198
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The Household Wealth Distribution in Spain: The Role of Housing and Financial Wealth
Azpitarte, Francisco - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
We analyse the distribution of household wealth in Spain using the first wave of the Spanish Survey of Household … Finances, conducted by the Bank of Spain in 2002. We study the distribution of the different wealth components and, using … inequality decomposition techniques, we assess the contribution of each element to overall wealth inequality. We find that wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135141
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On the binomial decomposition of OWA functions, the 3-additive case in n dimensions
Bortot, Silvia; Pereira, Ricardo Alberto Marques; … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2015
In the context of the binomial decomposition of OWA functions, we investigate the parametric constraints associated with the 3-additive case in n dimensions. The resulting feasible region in two coefficients is a convex polygon with n vertices and n edges, and is strictly increasing in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011235047
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Polarization, inequality and growth: The Indian experience
Motiram, Sripad; Sarma, Nayantara - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
We analyze polarization in India roughly in the past two and half decades using consumption expenditure data. We show that both bipolarization and multidimensional polarization (on several dimensions: caste, rural-urban, state, region) have increased since the 1990s. In the case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366278
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A new framework of measuring inequality: Variable equivalence scales and group-specific well-being limits. Sensitivity findings for German personal income distribution 1995-2009*
Faik, Jürgen - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
The paper examines sensitivity influences on the German personal income distribution in a time-series perspective as well as in a methodically broad manner. The author discusses the following issues: (1) For the first time, (reference) income-dependent, so-called variable equivalence scales are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366279
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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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Distributions in motion: Economic growth, inequality, and poverty dynamics
Ferreira, Francisco - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
The joint determination of aggregate economic growth and distributional change has been studied empirically from at least three different perspectives. A macroeconomic approach that relies on cross-country data on poverty, inequality, and growth rates has generated some interesting stylized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676878
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Measures of poverty and inequality in the countries and regions of EU
Longford, Nicholas T.; Pittau, Maria Grazia; Zelli, Roberto - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
The European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is the main source of information about living standards and poverty in the member states of the European Union. It provides reliable statistics at national level but sample sizes do not allow reliable estimates at sub-national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676883
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An integrated approach for the measurement of inequality, poverty, and richness
Crespo, Nuno; Moreira, Sandrina Berthault; Simões, Nádia - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
results, a decomposition according to households’ characteristics, and an immediate comparison of the results between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249978