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Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …
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time from the sample. The paper develops fast algorithms for jackknifing inequality indices with only a few passes through …
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By using estimates from an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS), we investigate how the German energy tax on car fuels changes the private households-CO2 emissions, living standards, and post-tax income distribution. Our results show that the tax implies a trade-off between the aim to reduce...
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time from the sample. The paper develops fast algorithms for jackknifing inequality indices with only a few passes through …
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Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A …
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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …
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Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight … household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality … rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap approach is …
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time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …
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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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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 …
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