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Quality of match for statistical matches used in the 1999 and 2005 LIMEW estimates for Canada
Masterson, Thomas - 2010
The quality of match of four statistical matches used in the LIMEW estimates for Canada for 1999 and 2005 is described. The first match combines the 1999 Survey of Financial Security (SFS) with the 1999 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). The second match combines the 1998 General...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281694
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Quality of match for statistical matches used in the 1999 and 2005 LIMEW estimates for Canada
Masterson, Thomas - 2010
The quality of match of four statistical matches used in the LIMEW estimates for Canada for 1999 and 2005 is described. The first match combines the 1999 Survey of Financial Security (SFS) with the 1999 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). The second match combines the 1998 General...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008657986
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Quality of Match for Statistical Matches Used in the 1999 and 2005 LIMEW Estimates for Canada
Masterson, Thomas - 2010
The quality of match of four statistical matches used in the LIMEW estimates for Canada for 1999 and 2005 is described. The first match combines the 1999 Survey of Financial Security (SFS) with the 1999 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). The second match combines the 1998 General...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138522
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A Normative and Statistical Approach to Measuring Classical Horizontal Inequity
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Lambert, Peter J. - 2001
This paper makes a new attack on the old problem of measuring horizontal inequity (HI). A local measure of HI is proposed, and aggregated into a global index. Whilst other approaches have captured the welfare gain which would come from eliminating HI revenue-neutrally, our global index provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191442
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A Normative and Statistical Approach to Measuring Classical Horizontal Inequity
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Lambert, Peter J. - 1999
A local measure of classical horizontal inequity (HI) in an income tax or tax-benefit system is proposed and aggregated into a global index. This index expresses the revenue gain per capita that would come from eliminating HI welfare-neutrally, and also reveals the loss of vertical performance,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191764
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Classical Horizontal Inequity and Reranking : An Integrated Approach
Duclos, Jean-Yves; Jalbert, Vincent; Araar, Abdelkrim - 2003
ethically flexible tools that integrate these two strands. This is achieved using a measure of inequality that merges the well … transfers into a vertical equity effect and a loss of redistribution due to either classical HI or reranking. An inequality …-change approach and a money-metric cost-of-inequality approach are developed. The latter approach makes aggregate classical HI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014128473
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Statistical Inference for Stochastic Dominance and for the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality
Davidson, Russell; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 1998
poverty, welfare and inequality. This includes estimators of most of the poverty indices currently in use, as well as …, inequality or social welfare is greater in one distribution than in another for general classes of indices. We also derive the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014065360
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"Quality of Match for Statistical Matches Used in the 1999 and 2005 LIMEW Estimates for Canada"
Masterson, Thomas - Levy Economics Institute - 2010
The quality of match of four statistical matches used in the LIMEW estimates for Canada for 1999 and 2005 is described. The first match combines the 1999 Survey of Financial Security (SFS) with the 1999 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). The second match combines the 1998 General...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008607501
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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being: Estimates for Canada, 1999 and 2005
Sharpe, Andrew; Murray, Alexander; Evans, Benjamin; … - 2011
household's total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281720