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inequality among households. In particular, I stress that shocks to labor incomes suffice to generate observable differences …
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Inequality in Bolivia is normally measured through income. However, the construction of a socio-economic index (ISE …), using the four available censuses 1976, 1992, 2001 and 2012, permits to analyze inequality in long-term as well as under a …
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Inequality in Bolivia is normally measured through income. However, the construction of a socio-economic index (ISE …), using the four available censuses 1976, 1992, 2001 and 2012, permits to analyze inequality in long-term as well as under a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925769
From the theoretical discussion in uniformity and income distribution, the aim of the following remarks is to propose a causal model in order to its explanation. Economic growth process seeks for equity in income distribution. Notwithstanding turns out to be insufficient to reduce poverty, in a...
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This article provides a tool to study over time the distributions of income in a population, regardless the irregular distribution of data. We even approach Lorenz curves at the times when we lack the required data. Finally we apply the present technique to a European country where inequalities...
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This paper studies inequality of opportunity on earnings among young argentines. It aims to contribute to measure this … by Bourguignon, Ferreira y Menéndez (2007) to measure the degree of inequality of opportunity. The results suggest that … while income inequality has decreased there seems no clear pattern of inequality of opportunity, moreover in recent periods …
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Europea, durante el período 1993-1999. = This paper focuses both on the foundations of income inequality measures and on their … generated, in order to define whether an inequality measure has a good perform or not. In doing so, it will be possible to check … out when a particular inequality measure performs in a suitable way. Furthermore, an analysis on the problems related to …
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In Del Río and Ruiz-Castillo (2000) a new concept of intermediate inequality between the absolute and relative concept … is to use this methodology to difine a new concept, (x,d,p)- inequality, in order to range income distributions with … higher relative inequality than the status quo, where the above concept does not apply. The interest of this approach is that …
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inequality indicators in Chile for the period 1960-2014. The relationship between episodes of crisis and fluctuations on levels … of inequality are estimated from an event study, finding that they are related to fluctuations in inequality. In addition …, we perform econometric estimates where inequality indicators relate to different macroeconomic variables and educational …
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This study measures the impact of changes in the income determinants on inequality in the 1990 to 2003 period, in order … determinant factors and changes in income inequality. It is analyzed the role of returns, participation rates, occupational … choices, schooling endowments, subsidies, pensions and household size. The inertia shown by inequality reflects the interplay …
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