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Estimating income inequality in China using grouped data and the generalized beta distribution
Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Prasada Rao, D. S.; Tang, Kam Ki - 2006
There are two main types of data sources of income distributions in China: household survey data and grouped data … grouped data to study income inequality in China. A generalized beta distribution is employed to model income inequality in … China at various levels and periods of time. The generalized beta distribution is more general and flexible than the …
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Baby booming inequality? Demographic change and earnings inequality in Norway, 1967-2000
Almås, Ingvild; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2010
In this paper, we demonstrate how age-adjusted inequality measures can be used to evaluate whether changes in inequality over time are due to changes in the age structure. To this end, we use administrative data on earnings for every male Norwegian during 1967-2000. We find that the substantial...
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Inequality and Corruption: Evidence from US States
Alt, James E.; Dreyer Lassen, David - 2008
High-quality data on state-level inequality and incomes, panel data on corruption convictions, and careful attention to the consequences of including or excluding fixed effects in the panel specification allow us to estimate the impact of income considerations on the decision to undertake...
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Global inequality: Recent evidence and trends
Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Prasada Rao, D. S.; … - 2007
This paper examines the nature and extent of global and regional income distribution and inequality using the most recent country level data on income distribution drawn from World Bank and UNU-WIDER studies for the period 1993-2000. The methodology used is a recently developed technique to fit...
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The empirics of the median voter: Democracy, redistribution and the role of the middle class
Scervini, Francesco - 2009
The paper investigates the effectiveness of the median voter as a decisive agent in the process of redistribution. According to the previous literature, it tests several assumptions finding interesting results: The positive relation between inequality and redistribution is confirmed, but the...
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Ranking intersecting Lorenz curves
Aaberge, Rolf - 2008
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such situations two alternative sequences of...
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Robust inequality comparisons
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne - 2010
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such situations Aaberge (2009) introduced two...
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The Gini Trade Index: What can we learn from a new trade indicator?
Cernat, Lucian - 2024
This Policy Brief introduces the Gini Trade Index (GTI) as a new trade synthetic key performance indicator capable of capturing the different distribution of trade values across firm characteristics and across countries. The new indicator replicates the well-known features of the traditional...
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Benefit Incidence Analysis of Public Spending on Education in the Philippines: A Methodological Note
Cuenca, Janet S. - 2008
Benefit incidence analysis (BIA) is a tool used to assess how tax policy or government subsidy affects the distribution of welfare in the population. In other words, it evaluates the distribution of government subsidies among different groups in the population, in particular, among different...
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Government Spending and Inclusive Growth in Developing Asia
Hur, Seok-Kyun - 2014
This paper assesses the effects of fiscal policy on both equity and growth, specifically whether it is possible to design fiscal spending so that it enhances equity without sacrificing economic growth and vice versa. A cross-country panel vector autoregression (PVAR) using the World Development...
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