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Financial Stress Thresholds and Household Equivalence Scales
Lim, G. C.; Tsiaplias, Sarantis - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2015
Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. Households have different capacities to absorb a shock or shift, with …This paper relates indicators of household financial stress to household income and expenditure with the objective of … identifying household stress thresholds and comparable equivalence scales. A model is proposed whereby households try to absorb …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011200433
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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden.
Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
individuals, and their household members, which is representative for the population during the period 1960 to 1998. As future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005779797
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LINDA - Longitudinal INdividual DAta for Sweden.
Edin, P.-A.; Fredriksson, P. - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2000
individuals, and their household members, which is representative for the population during the period 1960 to 1998. As future …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005634567
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Quality of Life for National Policy
Johansson, Sten - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 2001
The interests in social indicators and social reporting started in the 1960s with the new awareness of poverty in the midst of affluence. In this paper I first discuss the poverty concept and its implication for social policy strategy. The poverty concept should be but one in a system of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207102
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Social Quality and Precarity: Approaching New Patterns of Societal (Dis)Integration
Herrmann, Peter; Maesen, Laurent J.G. van der - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The main issue of this article is to discuss the question of ‘precarity’ in the context of the theory of social quality (see Beck et al, 2001), with which to pave the way for developing further the theoretical foundation of precarity. Societal practice is the main challenge this concept...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836955
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Comparing Multidimensional Indices of Inequality: methods and application
Lugo, Maria Ana - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2005
The paper provides an examination into the measures of multidimensional inequality proposed in the past few years, their properties and majorization criteria. It offers a generalisation of Bourguignon index proposed so that it includes Tsui measures (1999) while preserving the virtues of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005135140
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Charting Income Inequality: The Lorenz Curve
Bellù, Lorenzo G.; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality measurement. A short conceptual background, a step-by-step procedure and a simple numerical example illustrate how to calculate and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919738
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Crossing Generalised Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Crossing Generalised Lorenz (GL) curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. It starts by illustrating two alternative income distributions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008924809
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Social Welfare Analysis of Income Distributions: Ranking Income Distributions with Lorenz Curves
Bellù, Lorenzo Giovanni; Liberati, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
This paper illustrates how Lorenz Curves can be used to identify the best income distribution on social welfare grounds, within a set of alternative income distributions generated by different policy options. After highlighting some drawbacks of using specific functional forms of the Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004151
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La distribución de la renta en España en el periodo de crecimiento económico: 1998-2005/The Distribution of the Income in Spain in the Period of Economic Growth: 1998-2005
OCHANDO CLARAMUNT, CARLOS - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 28 (2010) Diciembre, pp. 691-691
El objetivo del trabajo es analizar la relación entre el crecimiento económico y la distribución de la renta en España entre 1998 y 2005 (crecimiento económico con escasa reducción de la desigualdad). El trabajo intenta mostrar la relación entre ambas variables económicas, así como...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794504