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Minimum Distance Testing and Top Income Shares in Korea
Cho, Jin Seo - 2015
We study Kolmogorov-Smirnov goodness of fit tests for evaluating distributional hypotheses where unknown parameters need to be fitted. Following work of Pollard (1979), our approach uses a Cramér-von Mises minimum distance estimator for parameter estimation. The asymptotic null distribution of...
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Using the GB2 income distribution
Duangkamon Chotikapanich; Griffiths, William E.; … - In: Econometrics : open access journal 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-24
To use the generalized beta distribution of the second kind (GB2) for the analysis of income and other positively skewed distributions, knowledge of estimation methods and the ability to compute quantities of interest from the estimated parameters are required. We review estimation methodology...
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La desigualdad y la pobreza como desafios para el desarrollo territorial rural
Berdegue, Julio; Schejtman, Alexander - In: Revista Española de Estudios Agrosociales y Pesqueros (2008) 218
El articulo analiza la evolucion de la pobreza y la desigualdad rurales en America Latina a partir de inicios de la … incidencia de pobreza como en la distribucion del ingreso. El articulo profundiza en la dimension territorial de la desigualdad … tres vias: a) estimular los flujos de inversion hacia territorios rurales afectados por la pobreza y la desigualdad; b …
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Peaks vs. components
Vollmer, Sebastian; Holzmann, Hajo; Weisbrod, Julian - 2010
We analyze the cross-national distribution of GDP per capita and its evolution from 1970 to 2003. We argue that peaks are not a suitable measure for distinct growth regimes, because the number of peaks is not invariant under strictly monotonic transformations of the data (e.g. original vs. log...
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Poverty trends in Turkey
Şeker, Sirma Demir; Jenkins, Stephen - 2013
This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty...
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On the distributional properties of household consumption expenditures : the case of Italy
Fagiolo, Giorgio; Alessi, Lucia; Barigozzi, Matteo; … - 2007
In this paper we explore the statistical properties of the distributions of consumption expenditures for a large sample of Italian households in the period 1989-2004. Goodness-of-fit tests show that household aggregate (and age-conditioned) consumption distributions are not log-normal. Rather,...
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Income Distribution Within Each Country of the Western World, USA and Japan - A Panel Data Analysis
Georgiou, Miltiades N. - 2012
Present paper makes some comments on the conclusions of (Bonesmo Fredriksen, 2012) who claims among others that “…Furthermore, EU income inequality is found to have increased over the past 25 years, albeit at a slower pace since 2000”. My comments are that the above conclusion depends on...
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Examining the Distributional Effects of Military Service on Earnings : A Test of Initial Dominance
Bennett, Christopher Joseph - 2012
Existing empirical evidence suggests that the effects of Vietnam veteran status on earnings in the decade-and-a-half following service may be concentrated in the lower tail of the earnings distribution. Motivated by this evidence, we develop a formal statistical procedure that is specifically...
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Comparing Multidimensional Poverty with Qualitative Indicators of Well-Being
Batana, Yele Maweki - 2014
This paper examines multidimensional stochastic dominance when one of the indicators of well-being, such as household size or place of residence, is qualitative. It also uses a test for strict dominance based on the empirical likelihood ratio. Empirical applications are based on the DHS...
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Poverty Trends in Turkey
Demir, Sırma - 2013
This paper provides new evidence about poverty trends in Turkey between 2003 and 2011 and the factors accounting for them. We give particular attention to issues of statistical inference, and the choice of the poverty line and the poverty measure. Our robust conclusion is that absolute poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071446