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reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient … revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient 2011) decomposition …
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reduce income inequality. Starting from Lambert and Aronson (Inequality decomposition analysis and the Gini coefficient … revisited 1993) and Alvaredo (A note on the relationship between top income shares and the Gini coefficient 2011) decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110866
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 …
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unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …
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unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the …
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Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … extent to which estimates of Gini coefficients from the WIID Companion are consistent with and add to the prevailing … understanding of inequality in Ghana. To this end, we review the primary source of data for the three main Gini series on Ghana …
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and redistribution through taxes. Second we hereby test whether there is a relationship between progressivity and the …
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The paper focuses on the support given through tax and benefit systems to families with children and addresses how the size and impact on the income distribution of this kind of support can be accurately measured. While such support is usually measured in rather narrow terms by adding up the...
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This paper gives an international comparison of the redistributive effect of personal income taxes in the 15 countries of the EU, using the European tax-benefit model EUROMOD. We focus on the effect of personal income taxes, social insurance contributions and other direct taxes. We present the...
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calculating Gini and Kakwani indices, we also estimate the inequality reduction and the progressivity characteristics of taxes on …
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