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Estimating welfare indices: household weights and sample design

Cowell, Frank A.; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2000

The techniques of simple random sampling are seldom appropriate in the empirical analysis of income distributions. Various types of weighting schemes are usually required either from the point of view of welfare-economic considerations (the mapping of household/family distributions into...

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The Relationship between Subjective Wellbeing and Subjective Wellbeing Inequality: Taking Ordinality and Skewness Seriously

Grimes, Arthur; Jenkins, Stephen P.; Tranquilli, Florencia - 2020

We argue that the relationship between individual satisfaction with life (SWL) and SWL inequality is more complex than … described by leading earlier research such as Goff, Helliwell, and Mayraz (Economic Inquiry, 2018). Using inequality indices … inequality, matters for individual SWL outcomes; so too does whether we look upwards or downwards at the (skewed) distribution …

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Better Off? Distributional Comparisons for Ordinal Data about Personal Well-Being

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2019

-assessed health status? Has average well-being increased or well-being inequality decreased? How does the distribution of well …

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Inequality Comparisons with Ordinal Data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2019

distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL … inequality rankings. …

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Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2020

demonstrate, ineqord can be used for dominance checks as well as for estimation of indices of polarization and inequality. …

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Trends in Individual Income Growth: Measurement Methods and British Evidence

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and quantile composition changes over time because of income...

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Accounting for poverty differences between the United States, Great Britain, and Germany

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2002

We propose a framework for comparing the relationship between poverty and personal characteristics across countries (or across years), and use it to compare levels and patterns of relative poverty in the USA, Great Britain and Germany during the 1990s. The higher aggregate poverty rates in the...

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Trends in individual income growth: Measurement methods and British evidence

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2011

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Trends in individual income growth: Measurement methods and British evidence

Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - 2011

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To what Extent do Fiscal Regimes Equalize Opportunities for Income Acquisition Among citizens?

Roemer, John E.; Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo; … - 2000

This project employs the theory of equality of opportunity, described in Roemer's book (Equality of Opportunity … opportunities among citizens for income acquisition. Roughly speaking, equality of opportunity for incomes has been achieved in a … citizen's type is defined by the socio-economic status of his parents. Intuitively, a country will have equalized opportunity …

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