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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...

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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

Estimating Poverty and Inequality from Grouped Data : How Well Do Parametric Methods Perform?

Minoiu, Camelia; Reddy, Sanjay G. - 2014

Poverty and inequality are often estimated from grouped data as complete household surveys are neither always available to researchers nor easy to analyze. In this study we assess the performance of functional forms proposed by Kakwani (1980a) and Villasenor and Arnold (1989) to estimate the...

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The effect of growth and inequality in incomes on health inequality : theory and empirical evidence from the European panel

Van Ourti, Tom; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Koolman, Xander - 2006

Europe aims at combining income growth with improvements in social cohesion as measured by income and health … growth and the income responsiveness of health. We investigate whether these conditions held in Europe in the nineties using ….Keywords:income inequality, health inequality, income elasticity of health, Europe. …

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Income inequality, cohesiveness and commonality in the Euro area : a semi-parametric boundary-free analysis

Anderson, Gordon; Pittau, Maria Grazia; Zelli, Roberto; … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-20

The cohesiveness of constituent nations in a confederation such as the Eurozone depends on their equally shared experiences. In terms of household incomes, commonality of distribution across those constituent nations with that of the Eurozone as an entity in itself is of the essence. Generally,...

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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - 2012

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, the authors show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion...

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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - 2010

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs.Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and...

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Country inequality rankings and conversion schemes

Schröder, Carsten; Bönke, Timm - 2012

Two conversion schemes may be employed for assessing income inequality from household equivalent incomes: to weight household units by size or by needs. Using data from the Luxembourg Income Study, we show the sensitivity of country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009567072

Some microeconometric evidence on the relationship between health and income

Adeline, Amélie; Delattre, Eric - In: Health economics review 7 (2017) 27, pp. 1-18

This paper examines the association between income, income inequalities and health inequalities in Europe. The … Retirement in Europe (15 countries), we take the advantage of the cross-sectional and longitudinal nature of this rich database …

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Tax reform evaluation using nonparametric methods : Sweden 1980-1991

Blomquist, Nils Sören; Eklöf, Matias; Newey, Whitney K. - 1997

This paper evaluates the tax reforms carried out in Sweden between 1980 and 1991. We use a recently developed nonparametric labor supply function to account for the behavorial responses of the taxed individuals. We decompose the tax reform to study how the separate components influence hours of...

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