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A discreet approach to study the distribution-free downward biases of Gini coefficient and the methods of correction in cases of small observations
Majumder, Amlan; Kusago, Takayoshi - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
It is well-known that Gini coefficient is influenced by granularity of measurements. When there are few observations only or when they get reduced due to grouping, standard measures exhibit a non-negligible downward bias. At times, bias may be positive when there is an apparent reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010698703
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Is it all about the tails? The Palma measure of income inequality
Cobham, Alex; Sumner, Andrew - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
The ``Palma'' is the ratio of national income shares of the top 10 percent of households to the bottom 40 percent, reflecting Gabriel Palma's observation of the stability of the ``middle'' 50 percent share of income across countries so that distribution is largely a question of the tails. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878121
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Armed conflict, household victimization, and child health in Côte d'Ivoire
Minoiu, Camelia; Shemyakina, Olga N. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
We examine the effect of the 2002-2007 civil conflict in Côte d'Ivoire on children's health status using household … health setbacks compared with children from less affected regions. We further examine possible war impact mechanisms using …-induced economic losses, health impairment, displacement, and other forms of victimization are important channels through which …
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Horizontal inequity in access to health care in four South American cities
Balsa, Ana I.; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
from SABE, a survey on Health, Well-being and Aging administered in several Latin American cities in 2000. After having …. The decomposition of healthcare inequalities suggests that inequities within each health system (public or private) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967190
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Inequality of opportunity and growth
Marrero, Gustavo A.; Rodríguez, Juan G. - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
Theoretical and empirical studies exploring the effects of income inequality upon growth reach a disappointing inconclusive result. This paper postulates that one reason for this ambiguity is that income inequality is actually a composite measure of at least two different sorts of inequality:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512109
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Accounting for family background when designing optimal income taxes: A microeconometric simulation analysis
Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
The purpose of this paper is to introduce and adopt a generalised version of Roemer's (1998) Equality of Opportunity (EOp) framework, which we call extended EOp, for analysing second-best optimal income taxation. Unlike the pure EOp criterion of Roemer (1998) the extended EOp criterion allows...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512111
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Counting poverty orderings and deprivation curves
Vega, Ma. Casilda Lasso de la - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2009
Most of the data available for measuring capabilities or dimensions of poverty is either ordinal or categorical. However, the majority of the indices introduced for the assessment of multidimensional poverty behave well only with cardinal variables. The counting approach introduced by Atkinson...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512116
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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...
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Equality of opportunity: Theory and evidence
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2015
Building on earlier work by political philosophers, economists have recently sought to define a concept of equity that accommodates the fairness of reward to individual responsibility and effort, while allowing for the existence of some inequalities which are unfair and should be compensated....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011235048
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Decomposing inequality `at work': Cross-country evidence from EU-SILC
Carrieri, Vincenzo; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2015
We propose a structural model to estimate inequality of opportunity (IOp) among workers and to distinguish two different sources of inequality: (i) inequality in the labour attachment and (ii) inequality in the remuneration of each working hour. Considering working hours as a measure of effort,...
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