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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys
Gasparini, Leonardo - 2003
This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941057
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Monitoring the Socio-Economic Conditions in Chile
Giovagnoli, Paula; Pizzolitto, Georgina; Trías, Julieta - 2005
This report describes the socio-economic situation in Chile based on a large set of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata of the Encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN) from 1990 to 2000. The report also draws from other data sources and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941074
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China and the United States: Different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
van der Weide, Roy; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012423987
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Changes in the distribution of wealth in China, 1995 - 2002
Li, Shi; Zhao, Renwei - 2007
his paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys collected rich information on household wealth and its components, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284731
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Intergenerational earnings mobility in Japan among sons and daughters: Levels and trends
Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - 2012
This paper estimates the extent of intergenerational income mobility in Japan among sons and daughters born between … Japanese Social Stratification and Mobility (SSM) surveys, collected between 1965 and 2005. Father's income is predicted on the … intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291383
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Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Burkhauser, Richard V.; Feng, Shuaizhang; Jenkins, … - 2007
earnings and income inequality in the USA. Time-inconsistency problems related to top coding in theses data have led many … show that using P90/P10 does not completely obviate timeinconsistency problems, especially for household income inequality … public use data, closely track inequality trends in labor earnings and household income using internal data. But estimates of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260926
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China and the United States : different economic models but similarly low levels of socioeconomic mobility
Weide, Roy van der; Narayan, Ambar - 2019
The United States and China are the world's largest economies. Together they are responsible for about one-third of the world's economic output. This paper aims to examine whether the two economic giants are also lands of opportunity where resources are allocated in a way that minimizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161622
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Monitoring the Socio-Economic Conditions in Chile
Giovagnoli, Paula; Pizzolitto, Georgina; Trías, Julieta - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2005
This report describes the socio-economic situation in Chile based on a large set of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata of the Encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN) from 1990 to 2000. The report also draws from other data sources and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022021
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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys
Gasparini, Leonardo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2003
This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022027
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La distribución del ingreso: un breve resúmen de tres décadas
Gasparini, Leonardo - In: Económica LII (2006) 1-2, pp. 53-76
This paper summarizes the main results on changes in poverty and inequality in Argentina and the world in the last three decades, and discusses the progresses made by the Economics field in that period toward a better understanding of the distributional issues.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005258442