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Measuring income polarization for twenty European countries, 2004-13 : a Shapley growth-redistribution decomposition
Wang, Jinxian; Caminada, Koen; Wang, Chen - In: Eastern European economics 55 (2017) 6, pp. 477-499
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005738
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle in-come...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012231585
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Inequality measurement and tax/transfer policy
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2020
We provide a critique of the standard methodology which bases welfare comparisons between households on deflating household income and consumption by an equivalence scale. We argue that this leads to support for tax/transfer policies that significantly disadvantage low to middle income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232795
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Not all inequality measures were created equal : the measurement of wealth inequality, its decompositions, and an application to European household wealth
Costa, Rita Neves; Pérez-Duarte, Sébastien - 2019
Much of the literature on inequality, both that on the theoretical features of inequality measurement and that on the … distributions. The paper focuses on the measurement of inequality itself and includes an application to European data on wealth. We …, grounding their use in socio-economic theory and highlighting the connections between them. In particular, we investigate how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012137161
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Inequality, mobility, and segregation : essays in honor of Jacques Silber ; [... 15 papers, which were presented at the fourth meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Ineq...
Bishop, John A. (contributor); Silber, Jacques (honouree);  … - 2012 - 1. ed.
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Entropy Based European Income Distributions and Inequality Measures
Villas-Boas, Sofia Berto - 2018
In this paper, instead of likelihood based methods that are fragile under model uncertainty, we use entropy based methods on time-ordered household income data to recover income distribution information on European countries and obtain income inequality estimates. For information recovery, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928712
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Inequality, mobility, and segregation : essays in honor of Jacques Silber [... 15 papers presented at the Fourth meeting of the society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Catani...
Bishop, John A. (contributor); Silber, Jacques (honouree) - 2012
This volume honors the lifetime and continuing contributions of Professor Jacques Silber. The book contains 15 papers, which were presented at the Fourth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality, Catania, Sicily, July 2011. Theoretical topics covered in Volume 20 include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012050070
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Income thresholds and income classes
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Mulière, Pietro; Secchi, Piercesare - 2003
This paper proposes a method for detecting income classes based on the change-point problem. There is an increasing demand for such a method in the literature. Computation of polarization indices requires a pre-grouping of the incomes. Similarly, indices of social exclusion and sometimes indices...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011437377
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Equivalence scales reconsidered : an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm (contributor); Schröder, Carsten (contributor) - 2007
Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003609017
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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm (contributor); Schröder, Carsten (contributor) - 2007
Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003655003