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traditional measures, based on subgroups income means, to the approach related to inequality decomposition, and showing how … inequality measure. A three-terms decomposition of the Gini index is applied, thus allowing to take into account also the role of … overlapping component represents a key issue in gender gap analysis. An analysis of the income distribution of the Italian …
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of inequality, which are defined by PID. Therefore, these measures of income inequality are only of secondary importance … portion of population not reporting any income, any comprehensive modeling of the overall personal income distribution (PID …) is complicated. Age-dependent PIDs allow overcoming this shortcoming since the portion of population without income is …
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traditional measures, based on subgroups income means, to the approach related to inequality decomposition, and showing how … inequality measure. A three-terms decomposition of the Gini index is applied, thus allowing to take into account also the role of … overlapping component represents a key issue in gender gap analysis. An analysis of the income distribution of the Italian …
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definition of income. Therefore the model Gini coefficient potentially better describes true behavior of inequality in the USA … are several versions of personal income distribution (PID) provided by the US Census Bureau (US CB) for this period with … people without income. For the PIDs not including persons without income, Gini coefficient is varying around 0.51 between …
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income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … social inequality than the traditional 'income only' approach. We find that cross-country variations in the dependence …This paper considers a parametric model for the joint distribution of income and wealth. The model is used to analyze …
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In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … period of time. These trends are complemented with information for inequality in income and wealth from other sources, paying … only a few exceptions, we compare the same inequality concept obtained from the same source in two different years in each …
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Natural disasters cause economic damages and may exacerbate disparities in income distribution among countries across … forest fires on economic inequality around the world. Using quasi-random spatial and temporal variation in both the incidence … inequality among rural areas. Results indicate that the Gini index in rural areas increases by 13.72 per cent and 22.02 per cent …
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