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Income redistribution going awry : the reversal power of the concern for relative deprivation
Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded - 2012
We demonstrate that a rank-preserving transfer from a richer individual to a poorer individual can exacerbate income inequality (when inequality is measured by the Gini coefficient). This happens when individuals' preferences depend negatively not only on work time (effort) but also on low...
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Accounting for private health care expenses in measures of nations' redistributive effort
Baird, Katherine - 2018
-government poverty rates climb by three to four percentage points once we account for households’ medical expenses. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928593
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Income inequality in the European Union
Leyen, Kaja von der - 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/10009690154
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The Decomposition of the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani Re-Ranking Measure
Monti, Maria Giovanna - 2015
This article introduces a new matrix approach, based on pairwise income comparisons, to decompose the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani re-ranking measure when income units are gathered into groups. As it is known the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani re-ranking measure is defined by the difference between the...
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Growth and income redistribution components of changes in poverty : a decomposition analysis for Ireland, 1987 - 2005
Are, Wasiu Adekunle - 2012
This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009733719
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Government expenditures, foreign aid and remittances : a review of income inequality in Nigeria
Nwonye, Nnenna G.; Anowor, Oluchukwu F.; Okoh, Johnson … - In: African journal of business and economic research : AJBER 18 (2023) 3, pp. 185-207
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Gini Indices and the Redistribution of Income
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2014
Just as the Gini inequality index captures people's relative deprivation [Yitzhaki (1979)], so, we show in this paper, Gini-based progressivity and horizontal inequity indices capture individual perceptions of relative fiscal harshness and ill-fortune. In fact, we find that these links between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191406
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Gini Indices and the Redistribution of Income
Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2014
Just as the Gini inequality index captures people's relative deprivation [Yitzhaki (1979)], so, we show in this paper, Gini-based progressivity and horizontal inequity indices capture individual perceptions of relative fiscal harshness and ill-fortune. In fact, we find that these links between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014191766
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Can Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality?
Leigh, Andrew - 2005
Do income taxes levied at a state or regional level affect the after-tax distribution of income? Or do workers merely move between regions, causing pre-tax wages to adjust? This question is relevant both in across states in the United States, and across countries within the European Union. Using...
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Playing with the Hadamard product in decomposing Gini, concentration, redistribution and re-ranking indexes
Vernizzi, Achille - 2009
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