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A human development index by internal migrational status
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396465
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Income, inequality, and subjective well-being: an international and intertemporal perspective using panel data
Gruen, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte (2013) 1, pp. 15-35
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010226747
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Economic inequality : causes, consequences, and measurement issues : an empirical contribution
Scholl, Nathalie - 2016
(Un-)gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit waren schon immer Kernbestandteil eines jeden politischen Konzeptes, welches das Wohl der Menschen in den Mittelpunkt rückte. Die Idee der Gleichheit ist so alt wie die der Demokratie selbst und neben instrumentellen Gründen, aus denen man (Un-)gleichheit...
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Reconsidering the income-illness relationship using distributional regression : an application to Germany
Silbersdorff, Alexander; Lynch, Julia; Klasen, Stephan; … - 2017
In this paper we reconsider the relationship between income on health, taking a distributional perspective rather than one centered on conditional expectation. Using Structured Additive Distributional Regression, we find that the association between income on health is larger than generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011665984
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Reconsidering the Income-Illness Relationship Using Distributional Regression – An Application to Germany
Silbersdorff, Alexander - 2017
In this paper, we reconsider the relationship between income on health, taking a distributional perspective rather than one centered on conditional expectation. Using Structured Additive Distributional Regression, we find that the association between income on health is larger than generally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946979
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Growth, inequality, and well-being : intertemporal and global comparisons
Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003
. Our global analysis covering ca. 81 per cent of the world s population demonstrates that global well-being is at least 50 … per cent smaller than world per capita income if the unequal income distribution is also factored in. Conversely, growth … in world well-being has been larger than world income growth between 1970-1998. Since the inclusion of inequality has an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518161
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Growth, inequality, and well-being : comparisons across space and time
Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003
We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518406
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Measuring poverty
Klasen, Stephan (ed.) - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928421
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International income poverty measurement : which way now?
Klasen, Stephan; Krivobokova, Tatyana; Greb, Friederike; … - 2015
). We find that there are some limitations in the current estimation of these lines, but show that statistically superior … using 2011 PPPs would lead to substantially lower poverty in our estimation. The extent of the decline depends on whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317789
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Growth, income distribution, and wellbeing : comparisons across space and time
Grün, Carola; Klasen, Stephan - 2003
We use several well-being measures that combine average income with a measure of inequality to undertake international, intertemporal, and global comparisons of well-being. The conclusions emerging from the analysis are that our well-being measures drastically change our impression of levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001728840