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Inequality in Germany : myths, facts, and policy implications
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Lehwald, Sybille - 2016
In this paper we try to provide an overview of a series of simple descriptive facts on recent trends in economic inequality in Germany. We believe that it is important to be precise in the way in which we define the inequality measure and the sample we use, to avoid generating vague messages...
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The impact of recent economic crises on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece
Petrakos, George; Rontos, Kōnstantinos; Vavoura, Chara; … - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 6, pp. 1-23
one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece. To this end, we also … inequality and relative poverty have deteriorated during the years of crises, implying that the country's response to economic … distribution, we show that income inequality and the risk of poverty increase with growth, implying that the benefits of growth …
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Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics
Hartmann, Vanessa; Wacker, Konstantin - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 27 (2023) 3, pp. 1746-1768
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326973
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The Decomposition of the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani Re-Ranking Measure
Monti, Maria Giovanna - 2015
This article introduces a new matrix approach, based on pairwise income comparisons, to decompose the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani re-ranking measure when income units are gathered into groups. As it is known the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani re-ranking measure is defined by the difference between the...
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It is expensive being young and poor or being old and in the middle class
Scharrer, Christian - 2022
This paper studies the age-group-specific evolution of inequality of total income among highly and less educated females and males at ages 26-80 from 2005 to 2018. On the one hand, it presents time series of Gini coefficients and associated decompositions by different income components. On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013462656
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An integrated approach for top-corrected Ginis
Bartels, Charlotte; Metzing, Maria - 2017
Household survey data provide a rich information set on income, household context and demographic variables, but tend to under report incomes at the very top of the distribution. Administrative data like tax records offer more precise information on top incomes, but at the expense of household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011622206
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An integrated approach for top-corrected ginis
Bartels, Charlotte; Metzing, Maria - 2017
Household survey data provide a rich information set on income, household context and demographic variables, but tend to under report incomes at the very top of the distribution. Administrative data like tax records offer more precise information on top incomes, but at the expense of household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011613157
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A different perspective on the evolution of UK income inequality
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Jenkins, Stephen - 2018
The socio-economic mosaic of urban neighbourhoods changes under the influence of three distinctive distributional processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between neighbourhoods; and an overall growth or decline in income levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011925327
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The logic of inequality extraction : an application to Gini and top incomes data
Exenberger, Alexander - 2017
As embodied in the concept of "inequality extraction" (Branko Milanovic), it is not possible to increase inequality (especially income inequality) in a society sustainably to levels beyond what is actually socially acceptable (and even less to levels endangering physical subsistence of parts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011644643
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Estimating long-run income inequality from mixed tabular data : empirical evidence from Norway, 1875-2017
Aaberge, Rolf; Atkinson, Anthony B.; Modalsli, Jørgen … - 2020
Most evidence on the long-run evolution of income inequality is restricted to top income shares. While this evidence is relevant and important for studying the concentration of economic power, it is incomplete as an informational basis for analysing inequality in the income distribution as a...
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