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Geographic Inequality in Income and Mortality in Germany
Redler, Peter; Wuppermann, Amelie; Winter, Joachim; … - In: Fiscal Studies 42 (2021) 1, pp. 147-170
development of socio-economic inequality in mortality rates from 1990 to 2015 for different age groups and both genders. Ranking …, children and the very old. The most important driver of this reduction in inequality is German reunification in 1990. As …
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The impact of different data sources on the level and structure of income inequality
Ayala, Luis; Pérez, Ana; Prieto Alaiz, Mercedes - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 3, pp. 583-611
This paper aims to analyze the effect on measured inequality and its structure of using administrative data instead of … tails of the distribution. In addition to that, there are clear differences in the level and structure of inequality across …
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A multivariate extension of the Lorenz curve based on copulas and a related multivariate Gini coefficient
Grothe, Oliver; Kächele, Fabian; Schmid, Friedrich - In: The Journal of Economic Inequality 20 (2022) 3, pp. 727-748
simultaneously measure inequality in more than one variable. Our extensions are based on copulas and measure inequality stemming from … inequality in each single variable as well as inequality stemming from the dependence structure of the variables. We derive …
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Indicators used to measure service innovation and manufacturing innovation
Taques, Fernando Henrique; López, Manuel G.; Basso, … - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 6 (2021) 1, pp. 11-26
. Furthermore, multidimensional indicators provide a broader and more precise view of the innovation phenomenon at companies …
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A summary assessment of innovativeness of the new member states of the European Union
Dworak, Edyta; Grzelak, Maria Magdalena - In: Comparative Economic Research. Central and Eastern Europe 20 (2017) 3, pp. 57-75
This paper attempts to assess the level of innovativeness of the economies of the "new" EU member states in the years 2008-2015, with particular attention paid to the position of the Polish economy. This assessment was carried out on the basis of a summary index constructed with the use of...
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What is Inclusive Development? Introducing the Multidimensional Inclusiveness Index
Dörffel, Christoph; Schuhmann, Sebastian - In: Social Indicators Research 162 (2022) 3, pp. 1117-1148
-based and acknowledges all factors important for well-being. With the introduction of the Multidimensional Inclusiveness Index … (MDI), we address the conceptual drawbacks of prominent approaches like the Human Development Index (HDI), Inequality …
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Comparing the educational gradients in three cardiovascular disease-specific health measures
Hoffmann, Rasmus; Kröger, Hannes - In: Longitudinal and Life Course Studies 12 (2021) 4, pp. 591-607
Less-educated persons have worse cardiovascular health. We compare the educational gradients in three disease-specific health measures (biomarkers, self-reported doctors’ diagnoses and cause-specific mortality) in order to compare their relevance in different stages of the disease process. We...
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A decomposition analysis for socioeconomic inequalities in health status associated with the COVID-19 diagnosis and related symptoms during Brazil's first wave of infections
de França, Natália Cecília; Lima Campêlo, Guaracyane; … - In: EconomiA 22 (2021) 3, pp. 251-264
the National Survey of Households-PNAD COVID-19/IBGE-to quantify the socioeconomic inequality in health during the first … higher income levels. When considering symptoms similar to a COVID-19 infection, inequality practically disappears. Among …
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Psychische Gesundheit: Abstand zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland wird kleiner
Beckmannshagen, Mattis; Graeber, Daniel; Stacherl, Barbara - In: DIW Wochenbericht 90 (2023) 40, pp. 546-552
Psychische Gesundheit gewinnt in der öffentlichen Diskussion zunehmend an Aufmerksamkeit. Im Vergleich zur körper lichen Gesundheit ist sie aber weiterhin weniger prominent. Wie steht es also um die psychische Gesundheit in Deutsch land? Der Wochenbericht zeigt, dass sich die durchschnittli...
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A modified Kakwani measure for health inequality
Fjugushige, Mototsugu; Ishikawa, Noriko; Maekawa, Satoko - In: Health Economics Review 2 (2012) 10, pp. 1-7
inequality for medical services. Our modification is to measure inequality using the ratio of the concentration index to the Gini …
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