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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012026239
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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Broad differences in life expectancy are observed across countries and socio-demographic groups. This paper reviews the evidence for Italy on the level and development of these inequalities and discusses the strength and possible determinants of the relationship between life expectancy and education
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mortality across income groups - as a critical link through which income inequality persists. Using an overlapping generations … that differential child mortality and its interaction with differential fertility may generate an quot;income inequality …Many developing countries are plagued by persistent inequality in income distribution. While a growing body of economic …
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We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …
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particular, this means that we do not know how intergenerational mobility is correlated with growth, income or the degree of … inequality. Our proposal is to measure the informative content of surnames in one census. The more information the surname has on … the income of an individual, the more important is her background in determining her outcomes; and thus, the less mobility …
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This chapter explores the relationship between poverty and aging, in terms of its measurement and trends, as well as its alleviation, with particular attention to the most vulnerable individuals at each end of the age distribution. The measurement addresses both the definition of poverty and its...
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We employ data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate income to health causality. To account for … Granger-type causality running from income to health for married men but not for women or single men. These effects are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109809