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The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented along with new proposals, including gb2 subfamilies with p=1/q and p=q, the … completes LaSi with a polarization term of intensity pi and location kappa. This latest proposal fits better the cases of …
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The isograph methodology is developed here with associated distributions, indicators of inequality, additional results … distributions (FC, Dagum, SinghMaddala) are presented along with new proposals, including gb2 subfamilies with p=1/q and p=q, the … completes LaSi with a polarization term of intensity pi and location kappa. This latest proposal fits better the cases of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455258
Income distributions for developing countries in Asia are modeled using beta-2 distributions, which are estimated by a … method of moments procedure applied to grouped data. Estimated parameters of these distributions are used to calculate … measures of inequality, poverty, and pro-poor growth in four time periods over 1992 - 2010. Changes in these measures are …
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shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German … period of income. Estimates from annual, quarterly and monthly distributions are provided for one and a half decades …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between polarization and inequality, welfare and poverty measures. First, the … Wolfson polarization measure is generalized in terms of the between-groups and within-groups Gini components for income groups … separated by any z income value. Second, it is shown that polarization is the difference between the welfare levels of rich and …
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. The relationship between polarization, inequality and poverty is analyzed via the index. First, polarization measure for …This paper revisits one of the bipolarization indices of the large class of Duclos-Estebane-Ray polarization measures … headcount ratio, the income gap ratio and the overabundance gap ratio. In particular, it is shown that polarization is high when …
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A growing literature examines the effects of poverty, inequality and polarization on civil war but analyses typically …-coded data on 15 000 conflict deaths spread over a decade with small-area estimates of poverty and inequality for almost 4000 … war. Local relative wealth inequality is postively associated with the escalation of conflict, suggesting that relative …
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We analyze a simple and tractable model of occupational choice in the presence of credit marketimperfections. We examine the effect of parameters governing technology and transaction costs, andhistory, in terms of the initial wealth distribution, in determining the long-term wealth...
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Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5.3 percent. This paper uses spatially disaggregated monthly data on consumer prices and two different household surveys to estimate the welfare consequences of these food price...
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