Zusammenfassung Prominente Mikrodatenbasis für die Analyse von Einkommen und ihrer Verteilung ist die Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe (EVS). Allerdings sind hohe Einkommen über der „Abschneidegrenze" von 35 000 DM Haushaltsnettoeinkommen pro Monat nicht vorhanden. In dieser Studie wird...

Abstract The main focus of this article is on the study of properties and characterizations of dynamic survival extropy and its scaled version. Its relation with other well-known measures is also discussed. A simple nonparametric estimator and a nonparametric estimator based on the kernel are...

Abstract In the present work, we investigate the applications of cumulative entropy as a tool in income analysis. The relationships the cumulative entropy has with income gap ratio, Lorenz curve, Gini index, Bonferroni curve and Zenga curve are provided. Applications of the results to real data...

Transportation is an important source of carbon emissions. Since the level of urban traffic motorization enhanced quickly, the problem of carbon emissions derived from transportation has become a significant concern in recent years. It has become a key issue to study how to effectively reduce...

Abstract To increase the power of the VaR tests, it has been recently proposed to extend the duration-based test class with the geometric-VaR and Gini-coefficient-based tests. These tests, though exhibiting outstanding power properties, have not gained recognition in the industry. A potential...

The adoption of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010 with the intent to improve the U.S. health care delivery system by expanding health insurance coverage and controlling health care costs has generated intense debate regarding its implementation. Marketplaces known as...

The design of new hospital inpatient rooms is moving towards private (single occupancy) rooms. These rooms are generally preferred by patients and they may improve patient care, but they are more expensive to build and to staff than semi-private rooms. The question of their societal worth is...

Zusammenfassung Daten der Einkommens- und Verbrauchsstichprobe 1988 wurden für eine statische Mikrosimulation der Verteilungswirkungen verschiedener Reformszenarien der Finanzierung der Gesetzlichen Krankenversicherung verwendet. Trotz ihres Alters stellen diese Daten die zur Zeit aktuellste...

Summary Health care systems are financed through a mixture of different components: taxes, contributions to social health insurance, premiums to private health insurance, out of pocket payments by patients. These components can be combined differently leading to specific effects of interpersonal...