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This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted … maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796002
This paper extends the previous literature on the normative links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be interpreted … maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005609442
This paper extends the previous literature on the ethical links between the measurement of poverty, social welfare and … poverty may be interpreted as a robust ranking of social welfare, and a robust ranking of relative poverty may be intepreted … inequality. We show inter alia, how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696317
This paper develops a methodology to estimate the entire population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data. We do this through the estimation of the parameters of mixtures of distributions that allow for maximal parametric flexibility. The statistical approach we develop enables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547156
This paper develops a methodology to estimate the entire population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data. We do this through the estimation of the parameters of mixtures of distributions that allow for maximal parametric flexibility. The statistical approach we develop enables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999947
This paper develops a methodology to estimate the entire population distributions from bin-aggregated sample data. We do this through the estimation of the parameters of mixtures of distributions that allow for maximal parametric flexibility. The statistical approach we develop enables...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015309
The federal government announced in its 2012 budget its intention to delay the age of eligibility for Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement from 65 to 67 years. By the time the policy is fully implemented (i.e., in 2030), this delay will have increased net revenues of the federal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011205325
In 2002 the Government of Quebec enacted Bill 112, known as An Act to Combat Poverty and Social Exclusion. It has also … poverty and social exclusion. The Committee published a series of recommendations in 2009 that more or less amount to a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009294787
The federal government announced in its 2012 budget its intention to delay the age of eligibility for Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement from 65 to 67 years. By the time the policy is fully implemented (i.e., in 2030), this delay will have increased net revenues of the fedral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011115738
The poverty impact of indirect tax reforms is analyzed using sequential stochastic dominance methods. This allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005795969