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Ranking Inequality: Applications of Multivariate Subset Selection
Horrace, William C.; Marchand, Joseph T.; Smeeding, … - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
Inequality measures are often presented in the form of a rank ordering to highlight their relative magnitudes. However, a rank ordering may produce misleading inference, because the inequality measures themselves are statistical estimators with different standard errors, and because a rank...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135139
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Two scales, one methodology: Expenditure based equivalence scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - 1994
, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290104
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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290126
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Relative inequality and poverty in Germany and the United States using alternative equivalence scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - 1994
inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups … income ; inequality ; poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009667623
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Asset-Based Measurement of Poverty
Brandolini, Andrea - 2010
Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also … depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of … household net worth. We review and assess two main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth measures and asset-poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138589
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Deep and extreme child poverty in rich and poor nations : lessons from Atkinson for the fight against child poverty
Cai, Yixia; Smeeding, Timothy M. - 2019 - (Version: September 4th, 2019)
The paper documents child poverty levels and trends using both relative ('deep') and absolute ('extreme') measures in … different components of household income and other resources on child deep-poverty rates to examine the role of the market and … poverty reduction. Overall, middle-income nations have witnessed continuous reductions in their extreme child poverty rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117874
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Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005079301
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Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837119
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Two Scales, One Methodology - Expenditure Based Equivalence Scales for the United States and Germany
Merz, Joachim; Garner, Thesia; Smeeding, Timothy M.; … - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 1994
, inequality or poverty. This is true for country specific work or for cross-national comparisons. Researchers generally either use … a country specific equivalence scale (social assistance, expert based, or poverty scales), or adopt a single scale for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493971
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Relative Inequality and Poverty in Germany and the United States Using Alternative Equivalence Scales
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Smeeding, Timothy M.; Merz, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut Freie Berufe, Fakultät … - 1994
inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008493974