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Analysis of Health and Activity Limitation Index (HALex), its distribution, and its distribution by income in Japan, 1989 and 1998
Asada, Yukiko; Ohkusa, Yasushi - 2002
two ways: (1) construction of a health state measure in the CSLC equivalent to the Health and Activity Limitation Index …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332468
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The Bias of the Gini Coefficient due to Grouping
Ourti, Tom Van; Clarke, Philip - 2008
correction term is obtained from studying the estimator of the Gini index within a measurement error framework. In addition, it …We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325812
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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 … replicates the well-known features of the traditional Gini Index, a widely used metric for the skewness of several socioeconomic … indicators, in particular income inequality. The Policy Brief calculates the Gini Trade Index for all EU member states and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014560170
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Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2005
The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the technological innovation also provides impetus to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267513
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Principles and practicalities for measuring child poverty in the rich countries
Corak, Miles - 2005
This paper has three objectives. The first is to discuss the major issues involved in defining and measuring child poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are stated. The second objective is to take stock of child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267535
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Spatial versus social mismatch: The strength of weak ties
Zenou, Yves - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278389
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Household Inequality, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy
Francois, Joseph; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2004
We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components through Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions in a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325324
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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
covariates are also reviewed. Statistical inferences for inequality measurement including delta and bootstrapping and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261971
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269185
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269554