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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …
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The tragedy (or virtue?) of in-kind redistribution : how the poor pays for the rich's status concerns
Schumacher, Jan - 2008
The model describes a two person economy, in which one individual with positive exogenous income is altruist towards an individual with no income. The rich individual cares for her own social status. She evaluates her status by comparing disposable net cash incomes. When deciding on the size and...
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Taxing the Poor : Income Averaging Reconsidered
Batchelder, Lily L. - 2010
This Article presents an original empirical analysis demonstrating that low-income families experience far greater income fluctuations than higher-income families and, as a result, taxation of annual income disproportionately burdens low-income families. The author proposes two simple income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014194263
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Nudging the Poor and the Rich - A Field Study on the Distributional Effects of Green Electricity Defaults
Ghesla, Claus - 2020
Choice defaults are an increasingly popular public policy tool. Yet there is little knowledge of the distributional consequences of such nudges for different groups in society. We report results from an elicitation study in the residential electricity market in Switzerland in which we contrast...
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A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation
Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2017
We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011736612
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A Class of Proximity-Sensitive Measures of Relative Deprivation
Stark, Oded - 2017
We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p, the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight (the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946637
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Trends and Driving Factors in Income Distribution and Poverty in the OECD Area
Förster, Michael F.; Pellizzari, Michele - 2001
, income inequality has increased in about half of the countries studied, while none of the remaining countries recorded an … unambiguous decrease in inequality. Gross earnings and other market income were main contributors to widening inequality at the … household level, through channels of increased dispersion and employment polarization. This increase in market income inequality …
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Chapter 6 Income poverty in advanced countries
Jäntti, Markus; Danziger, Sheldon - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 309-378). 2000
This chapter reviews definitional issues that arise in assessing the extent of, and change in, poverty in western industrialized countries, including the choice of resource, level of poverty line and appropriate adjustments for the size and type of the income-sharing unit. The chapter also...
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A class of proximity-sensitive measures of relative deprivation
Stark, Oded; Bielawski, Jakub; Falniowski, Fryderyk - 2017
We introduce a new class of generalized measures of relative deprivation. The class takes the form of a power mean of order p . A characteristic of the class is that depending on the value of the proximity-sensitive parameter p , the class is capable of accommodating both a decreasing weight...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011723898
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Poorest made poorer? : decomposing income losses at the bottom of the income distribution during the Great Recession
Savage, Michael - 2016
On the basis of anonymous (or cross-sectional) analyses, income losses during the Great Recession in a number of European countries were concentrated among the poorest ten per cent of the population. The anonymous approach however, which simply compares the distribution of income at two points...
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