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interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER's World Income Inequality Database. In order to … better understand the trends, global interpersonal inequality is decomposed into within-country and between …-country inequality. The paper illustrates that the relationship between global interpersonal inequality and these constituent components …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343234
interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER’s World Income Inequality Database. In order to … better understand the trends, global interpersonal inequality is decomposed into within-country and between …-country inequality. The paper illustrates that the relationship between global interpersonal inequality and these constituent components …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108675
of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … inequality and poverty. We conclude that differences in estimation methods for equivalence scales might be less important than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764717
of their practical importance for the measurement of inequality and poverty, a large number of methods for the estimation … inequality and poverty. We conclude that differences in estimation methods for equivalence scales might be less important than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764530
bootstrap, in the case of inequality indices. To estimate the parameters of the assumed parametric data generating distribution … inequality index. Its primary advantage is that the scale parameter does not need to be estimated to perform parametric bootstrap …, since inequality measures are scale invariant. The very good finite sample coverages that are found in a simulation study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995222
Work done by the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) has documented the many-faceted nature of … inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely … high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one coherent story about African inequality, however, is difficult. The construction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477589
bootstrap, in the case of inequality indices. To estimate the parameters of the assumed parametric data generating distribution … inequality index. Its primary advantage is that the scale parameter does not need to be estimated to perform parametric bootstrap …, since inequality measures are scale invariant. The very good finite sample coverages that are found in a simulation study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011823357
Work done by the African Centre of Excellence for Inequality Research (ACEIR) has documented the many-faceted nature of … inequality in Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Conventionally measured inequality ranges from moderate (in Ghana) to extremely … high (in South Africa). Trying to tell one coherent story about African inequality, however, is difficult. The construction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014336337
interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER’s World Income Inequality Database. In order to … better understand the trends, global interpersonal inequality is decomposed into within-country and between …-country inequality. The paper illustrates that the relationship between global interpersonal inequality and these constituent components …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228740
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299624