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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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Poverty and inequality : Greece and Mediterranean Europe in comparative perspective
Munzi, Teresa (contributor);  … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003335858
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What is the contribution of intra-household inequality to overall income inequality? : evidence from global data, 1973-2013
Malghan, Deepak; Swaminathan, Hema - 2016
Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality. Using the LIS micro data, we present evidence that this neglect is Equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality. For a wide range of countries and over four...
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Measuring earnings inequality : an economic analysis of the Bonferroni index
Tumen, Semih - In: The review of income and wealth : journal of the … 57 (2011) 4, pp. 727-744
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Studies on economic well-being : essays in the honor of John P. Formby
Bishop, John A. (ed.); Amiel, Yoram (contributor) - 2004
Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 12 is the outgrowth of University of Alabama Poverty and Inequality conference … minimum wage. The Formby-Bishop-Kim paper compares the poverty reducing effects of the minimum wage to two alternative poverty …-Kalb-Scutella compare alternative approaches to measuring poverty and inequality in a discrete hours model. …
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Inequality, welfare and poverty : theory and measurement
Amiel, Yoram (ed.); Bishop, John A. (ed.) - 2003
Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 9, Inequality, Welfare and Poverty: Theory and Measurement continues the series … theory, economic mobility, issues in empirical estimation, and empirical studies. The theory papers address the link between … estimation papers address data weighting and equivalent scale issues. The final section presents empirical papers on poverty and …
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Inequality, welfare and poverty : theory and measurement
Amiel, Yoram (contributor); Bishop, John A. (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001760873
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Studies on economic well-being : essays in the honor of John P. Formby
Amiel, Yoram (contributor); Formby, John P. (honouree);  … - 2004 - 1. ed
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Income thresholds and income classes
D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Mulière, Pietro; Secchi, Piercesare - 2003
This paper proposes a method for detecting income classes based on the change-point problem. There is an increasing demand for such a method in the literature. Computation of polarization indices requires a pre-grouping of the incomes. Similarly, indices of social exclusion and sometimes indices...
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Statistical inference for stochastic dominance and for the measurement of poverty and inequality
Davidson, Russell; Duclos, Jean-Yves - In: Econometrica : journal of the Econometric Society, an … 68 (2000) 6, pp. 1435-1464
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