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Income Inequality in the European Union
Fredriksen, Kaja Bonesmo - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2012
Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276988
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World Income Inequality Databases : an assessment of WIID and SWIID
Jenkins, Stephen - 2014
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010402538
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World income inequality databases : an assessment of WIID and SWIID
Jenkins, Stephen - 2014
This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations multiply-imputed. WIID and SWIID are convenient and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409796
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Evolution of inequality in Nigeria : a tale of falling inequality, rising poverty and regional heterogeneity
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria overtime. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414158
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Evolution of inequality in Nigeria : a tale of falling inequality, rising poverty and regional heterogeneity
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022
Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013472036
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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal
Attili, Federico - 2021 - Rev. ed.
This paper considers a partitioned population and develops a decomposition of the Gini index in two components, which …
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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal
Attili, Federico - 2020
population partitioned by subgroups and develops a decomposition of the Gini index in two components, which measure the within … possess a crucial property which overcomes important issues that may arise using any Gini index decomposition in the spatial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301102
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Inequality of opportunity in household income, China 2002-2018
Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn; Sicular, Terry - 2021
This study contributes to the literature on inequality of opportunity (IOp) in China by covering a longer and more recent span of time, employing better measures of given characteristics, and analyzing IOp for household income per capita with comparisons to individual income. Furthermore, we...
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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
Like the other chapters in this volume of the Handbook of Income Distribution (and its predecessor), the aim of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area of research. We examine the literature on post-1970 trends in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011...
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Differences in inequality measurement: Ghana case study
Atta-Ankomah, Richmond; Lambon-Quayefio, Monica; Osei, … - 2023
Over the years, money-metric measures of inequality such as the Gini coefficient and the Palma Ratio, as frequently … extent to which estimates of Gini coefficients from the WIID Companion are consistent with and add to the prevailing … understanding of inequality in Ghana. To this end, we review the primary source of data for the three main Gini series on Ghana …
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