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,600 estimated Gini coefficient, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last …Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5 … curve, with inequality rising in most countries prior to the 1990s, and falling during the early 21st Century, at least …
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In this paper I want to shed light on two aspects of income mobility: relative total income mobility using the estimator by Fields and Ok [1999] and equalization of long-run incomes measured by the index of Fields [2004]. The cross country comparison shows a negative relationship between total...
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This paper analyzes the relationship between mean income and the income of the rich. Our methodology closely follows that of Dollar and Kraay (2002), but instead of looking at the bottom of the distribution, we analyze the top. We use panel data from the World Top Incomes database, which...
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We use the Interdistributional Lorenz Curves (ILCs) of Butler and McDonald (1987) to visualize convergence or divergence between income distributions. To illustrate the idea, we compare income distributions from Spain, Italy, and Germany. We also offer methods to test for significant differences...
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This paper aims to present an assessment of changes in inequality and well-being differences across the Spanish regions … Continuous Survey 2000, we analyze inequality differences and trends, the changes in the structure of inequality and the …
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The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …
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We show that the h-index and the g-index, which are commonly used to mea- sure the research productivity of a scientist, may be seen as concentration indices. For these indices we also propose transformations that make them always ranging between two known limits, which correspond to the...
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This paper uses demographic data drawn from Wrigley et al.'s (1997) family reconstitutions of 26 English parishes to adjust Allen's (2001) real wages to the changing demography of early modern England. Using parity progression ratios (a fertility measure) and age specific mortality for children...
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for those at the bottom of the income scale? Will ARRA reverse the upward trend in inequality that we have seen in the … creation, ARRA is likely to have little impact on overall income inequality, or on the income gaps between relatively …
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This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …
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