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The possibilities for global inequality and poverty reduction using revenues from global carbon pricing
Davies, James B.; Shi, Xiaojun; Whalley, John - 2012
Gini coefficient for world income falls by about 3% and the share of the bottom decile rises by 81% on average from 2015 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291894
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Horizontal inequality in education and wealth in Tanzania: A 20-year perspective
Maliti, Emmanuel - 2016
This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653926
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Sources of income as a factor of interregional socio-economical differentiation of Russian population (1995 - 2007 YEARS)
Gerasimova, Irina - 2010
. The GINI and FUND coefficients have been calculated for TMI and for its five components. The subjects of TMI concentration … sources. It could say that practically each region of RF has had the different way of social - economic development. GINI … decomposition by five sources of income, presented GINI as a linear combination of income structure and the Coefficients of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332364
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Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan - 2005
unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260928
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Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan; Schechtman, Edna; … - 2004
using the same set of follow-up rules. We apply ANOGI (ANalysis Of GIni) techniques, the equivalent of ANOVA (ANalysis Of … VAriance) performed on the basis of the Gini coefficient. The decomposition followed is presented in Yitzhaki (1994). We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261814
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Regional income stratification in unified Germany using a Gini decomposition approach
Frick, Joachim R.; Goebel, Jan - 2005
unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267316
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World Income Inequality Databases: An assessment of WIID and SWIID
Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2014
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419013
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The shape of the income distribution and economic growth: Evidence from Swedish labor market regions
Rooth, Dan-Olof; Stenberg, Anders - 2011
accurate measures of growth and inequality (gini, Q3, p9075, p5010) are derived from population register data. The regional set …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278526
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Unequal inequalities: Do progressive taxes reduce income inequality?
Duncan, Denvil; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289912
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Income inequality, cohesiveness and commonality in the Euro area: A semi-parametric boundary-free analysis
Anderson, Gordon; Pittau, Maria Grazia; Zelli, Roberto; … - In: Econometrics 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-20
developed in the context of a decomposition of the Gini coefficient and the roles of, and relationships between, these groups in …
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