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change in the Gini (based on consumption expenditure) by up to 0.03 points. Cross-country heterogeneity in this change is … large enough to alter the inequality ranking of numerous countries. The average inflation effect we detect is almost as … large as the change in the standard Gini measure over the period of interest. …
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change in the Gini (based on consumption expenditure) by up to 0.03 points. Cross-country heterogeneity in this change is … large enough to affect the ranking of the countries in inequality measures. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011892087
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011419013
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 was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653926
developed in the context of a decomposition of the Gini coefficient and the roles of, and relationships between, these groups in … societal income inequality, poverty, polarization and societal segmentation are examined. What emerges for the Eurozone as an … behaviour. However, in the face of increasing overall Eurozone inequality, constituent nations were becoming increasingly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995216
-personal inequality. We speculate on the emergence of homoploutic societies where income composition may be the same for all, but Gini … inequality (how the composition of income between capital and labor varies along income distribution). Capitalism may be seen to … countries over the past 25 years, we show that higher compositional inequality is associated with higher inter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012671232
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then examine how changes in inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411419
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then explore how changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296581
We present two Gini-like inequality indices that provide a more nuanced picture of how the profile of inequality has … that austerity increased income inequality in eurozone countries, but reduced income inequality in countries that do not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014363277
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421184