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Welfare Rankings of The Distribution of Earnings in Italy
Liberati, Paolo; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - In: Journal of Income Distribution 21 (2012) 2, pp. 38-76
The aim of this article is to compare the economic well-being associated to the distribution of earnings in Italy. To this purpose, dominance techniques are extensively used to minimize the disagreement about the set of social values introduced into the analysis. We will show that even in a...
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GDP and beyond: an implementation of welfare considerations to the distribution of earnings in Italy
Liberati, Paolo; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Roma 3 - 2012
The aim of this paper is to implement distributional considerations in comparing the economic well-being of individuals over time and living in different regions in Italy. Both Absolute Lorenz Curves (ALC) and standard Lorenz curves are used to address this issue from both a national and...
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Taxes, Transfers, and Income Redistribution in Latin America
Lustig, Nora - In: World Bank - Inequality in Focus 1 (2012) 2, pp. 1-5
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Comparing the incidence of taxes and social spending in Brazil and the United States
Higgins, Sean; Lustig, Nora; Ruble, Whitney; Smeeding, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
We perform the first comprehensive fiscal incidence analyses in Brazil and the US, including direct cash and food transfers, targeted housing and heating subsidies, public spending on education and health, and personal income, payroll, corporate income, property, and expenditure taxes. In both...
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Inequality and the time structure of earnings: evidence from Germany
Schröder, Carsten; Golan, Yolanda; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 3, pp. 393-409
This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year …="CR31">2003</CitationRef>), and in Yitzhaki and Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, <CitationRef CitationID … the observation period. This makes it difficult to predict the impact of the income accounting period on inequality in a …
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Deconstructing the decline in inequality in Latin America
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2013
Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 16 of the 17 countries … main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and … hourly labor income inequality. The causes behind the decline in returns to schooling, however, have not been unambiguously …
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Declining inequality in Latin America in the 2000s : the cases of Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico
Lustig, Nora; Lopez-Calva, Luis F.; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2012
statistically significant and robust to changes in the time interval, inequality measures, and data sources. In-depth country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010829738
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Inequality and the time structure of earnings: Evidence from Germany
Schröder, Carsten; Golan, Yolanda; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - In: Journal of Economic Inequality 12 (2014) 3, pp. 349-409
This paper studies the relationships between annual and subannual inequality and mobility during the course of the year … Wodon (Research on Economic Inequality 12:179–199, 2004). Earnings records of pension insurants in Germany serve as the … inequality in a more general context. Thus, it is of paramount importance to use income data from a uniform accounting period in …
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Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America
Neidhöfer, Guido; Lustig, Nora; Tommasi, Mariano - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 19 (2021) 3, pp. 571-598
The shock on human capital caused by COVID-19 is likely to have long lasting consequences, especially for children of low-educated families. Applying a counterfactual exercise we project the effects of school closures and other lockdown policies on the intergenerational persistence of education...
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May growth lead to higher deprivation despite higher satisfaction ?
Wodon, Quentin; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
In a relative deprivation framework, unless inequality is reduced, growth is associated with both higher satisfaction …
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