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In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517184
In view of rising concerns over increasing inequality in the European Union since the financial crisis, this study … provides an inequality decomposition of the overall European income distribution by country. The EU Statistics on Income and … Living Conditions are our empirical basis. Inequality has risen moderately within the core Euro area, particularly in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011280012
, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. -- income … distribution ; inequality ; inequality decomposition ; equivalence scale …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003655003
In this paper we identify some of the drivers of changes in the distribution of earnings and earnings inequality in the … South African labour market between 2000 and 2014. Although the overall level of earnings inequality between 2000 and 2011 … was high and relatively stable, there were nonetheless some interesting shifts in the factors generating inequality. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883417
Based on six harmonized cross-sections of the German Sample Survey of Income and Expenditure, we study inter-temporal changes in poverty from year 1978 to 2003. Results are decomposed by region and household types, and the bootstrap method is applied to test for the statistical significance of...
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