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Accounting for imputed and capital income flows in income inequality analyses
Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - 2009
Using representative and consistent microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) from 1985-2007, we illustrate that capital income (CI = return on financial investments) and imputed rent (IR = return on investments in owner-occupied housing) have become increasingly important...
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Growing richer and taller: Explaining Change in the Distribution of Child Nutritional Status during Vietnam’s Economic Boom
O'Donnell, Owen; Nicolás, Ángel López; van … - 2007
covariates. This is done using data from the 1993 and 1998 Vietnam Living Standards Surveys and a flexible decomposition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325368
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Sectorial shifts and inequality: How to relate macroeconomic events to inequality changes
Villalobos Barría, Carlos - 2012
unobserved characteristics). The decomposition methodology here proposed shows to be consistent under few assumptions (log normal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332688
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Does Size Matter? The Impact of Changes in Household Structure on Income Distribution in Germany
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Schneider, Hilmar - 2010
in income distribution. In order to do so, we are using a decomposition of changes in inequality measures over time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600923
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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261971
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...
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The Measurement of Income Distribution Dynamics when Demographics are correlated with Income
Grimm, Michael; Cogneau, Denis - 2005
The purpose of our paper is to derive instructive analytics on how to account for differentials in demographic variables, in particular mortality, when performing welfare comparisons over time. The idea is to apply various ways of 'correcting' estimated income distribution measures for 'sample...
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Analysing the effects of tax benefit reforms on income distribution: a decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - 2007
composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other factors …. We provide an illustration for France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …
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Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2007
Few researchers have examined the nature and determinants of earnings differentials among religious groups, and none has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the...
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The redistributive effects of tax benefit systems in the enlarged EU
Fuest, Clemens; Niehues, Judith; Peichl, Andreas - 2009
majority of countries. The factor source decomposition approach, however, suggests that benefits play a negligible role and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269585