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Rückgang der Einkommensungleichheit stockt

Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan - In: DIW Wochenbericht 80 (2013) 46, pp. 13-23

Die Ungleichheit der verfügbaren Einkommen in Deutschland ist nach dem Höhepunkt im Jahr 2005 leicht zurückgegangen. Diese Tendenz hat sich jedoch zuletzt - im Jahr 2011 - nicht weiter fortgesetzt. Maßgeblich dafür war die wieder gestiegene Ungleichheit der Markteinkommen und hier unter...

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Reduction in income inequality faltering

Grabka, Markus M.; Goebel, Jan - In: DIW Economic Bulletin 4 (2014) 1, pp. 16-25

Inequality of disposable incomes in Germany has decreased slightly since its peak in 2005. However, this trend did not continue in 2011. The most important reasons for this were the inequality in market incomes, including capital incomes, which had increased again. Besides this finding, the...

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The focus axiom and poverty: On the co-existence of precise language and ambiguous meaning in economic measurement

Subramanian, Subbu - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 6 (2012) 2012-8, pp. 1-21

Despite the formal rigour that attends social and economic measurement, the substantive meaning of particular measures could be compromised in the absence of a clear and coherent conceptualization of the phenomenon being measured. A case in point is afforded by the status of a focus-axiom in the...

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Income inequality in the face of climate change: an empirical investigation on unequal nations, vulnerable regions and India

SenGupta, Swapnanil; Atal, Aakansha - In: SN Business & Economics 4 (2024) 8

most climate-vulnerable countries, 39 most unequal countries in terms of income distribution, and India separately (1971 … relationship for India because India is one of the most climate-vulnerable and unequal countries. We use three climate change … series of robustness checks and an autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds test approach to analyse the link for India …

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Female poverty and intrahousehold inequality in transition economies

Piccoli, Luca - In: IZA World of Labor (2023)

Transition to a market economy is accompanied by a period of greater economic uncertainty. Women are likely to suffer substantial disadvantages from this uncertainty compared to men as they are, for example, more likely to lose their job. This not only implies a monetary loss for the entire...

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On various ways of measuring pro-poor growth

Deutsch, Joseph; Silber, Jacques - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 5 (2011) 2011-13, pp. 1-57

This paper examines three possible approaches to pro-poor growth. The first one assumes that the poverty line remains constant in real terms over time. The second perspective examines the case where the poverty line is equal to half the median of the income distribution but assumes that such a...

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Poverty, vulnerability, and the middle class in Latin America

Stampini, Marco; Robles, Marcos; Sáenz, Mayra; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 25 (2016) 1, pp. 1-44

Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3 to 29.7 % of the population). In this paper, we use synthetic panels to show that, despite progress, the region remains characterized by substantial vulnerability that also affects the rising middle class. More...

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Using the GB2 income distribution

Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Griffiths, William E.; … - In: Econometrics 6 (2018) 2, pp. 1-24

To use the generalized beta distribution of the second kind (GB2) for the analysis of income and other positively skewed distributions, knowledge of estimation methods and the ability to compute quantities of interest from the estimated parameters are required. We review estimation methodology...

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Female poverty and intrahousehold inequality in transition economies

Piccoli, Luca - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

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Are migrants in large cities underpaid? Evidence from Vietnam

Minh, Thai Pham - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 20, pp. 1-23

This paper examines the wage gap between migrants and non-migrants in large cities in Vietnam. It finds that migrants receive substantially lower wages than non-migrants. The wage gap tends to be larger for older migrants. However, once observed demographic characteristics of workers are...

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