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Income Inequality Measurement: The Normative Approach.
Blackorby, C.; Bossert, W.; Donaldson, D. - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 1996
This paper provides a survey of normative approaches to inequality measurement, to be published as a chapter in a volume of income inequality. We present general methods for deriving ethical inequality indexes from social-evaluation orderings such as the Atkinson-Kolm-Sen and Kolm procedures.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779683
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On Income Inequality and Democracy: Theories and Findings in Search of a Viable Data Base.
Castles, F.G. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
This paper seeks to evaluate the findings of cross-national research on the relationship between income inequality and democracy and to assess the prospects of future research in the area.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004977275
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Who got what, then and now? A Fifty Year Overview from the Global Consumption and Income Project
Jayadev, Arjun; Lahoti, Rahul; Reddy, Sanjay G. - Courant Research Centre PEG - 2015
implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011274876
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An Equal Right Solution to the Compensation-Responsability Dilemma.
Maniquet, F. - Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, … - 1996
In a simple model where skills may differ among agents, we propose to giv e them an equal right to the resources, interpreted as including both the technological possibilities and the skill profile. An equal right guarantees to each agent a minimal welfare level which depends only on her...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005823959
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Income inequality and poverty in front of and during the economic crisis - An empirical investigation for Germany 2002-2010
Faik, Jürgen - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2012
Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), both income inequality and poverty are considered for … the crisis – in 2009 – inequality dropped, and it increased afterwards. Poverty was not affected very much by economic … developments during the crisis but at least an in-crease of persons, who stayed within the poverty region, occurred between 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011163083
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New Estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being for Selected OECD Countries, 1981 - 2007
Sharpe, Andrew; Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in 2007 Norway had the highest level of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489033
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Measuring Economic Security in Insecure Times: New Perspectives, New Events, and the Index of Economic Well-being
Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
, single-parent poverty, and old-age poverty – are discussed. The second objective is to consider the adequacy of our framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489034
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The Economic Crises Through the Lens of Economic Well-being
Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
about 4 percentage points in the after-tax poverty rate, which would reach 13.2 per cent in 2010. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489035
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New Estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being for Canada and the Provinces, 1981 - 2008
Sharpe, Andrew; Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds that the IEWB advanced at a 1.20 per cent average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489040
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Living Standards Domain of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing
Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009
and wealth of Canadians over time, including trends in poverty. Part three discusses trends in income fluctuations or … and 2008. Indeed, Canadians experienced a widening of income and wealth inequalities. There have been poverty reductions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004985516