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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson inequality indices from complex survey data

Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen - 2003 - This version: 11 April 2003

inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …

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Relative income distribution in six European countries : market and disposable income

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur … together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The …

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A nifty fix for published distribution statistics : simplified distribution-free statistical inference

Beach, Charles M. - 2021

This paper applies the tool box measures of disaggregative income inequality characterization and the statistical …

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Sample sizes for reliably estimating lower and upper income shares in income distribution analysis

Beach, Charles M. - 2023

published by statistical agencies as measures of the distribution of income inequality - to calculate how large a survey sample …

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Statistical matching using propensity scores : theory and application to the Levy Institute measure of economic well-being

Kum, Hyunsub (contributor); Masterson, Thomas (contributor) - 2008

This paper summarizes the background, type, logic, and working procedure of the statistical matching used in the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) project to combine the various data sets used to produce the synthetic data set with which the LIMEW is constructed. The authors...

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Nonparametric structural estimation of labor supply in the presence of censoring

Liang, Che-yuan - 2009

This paper extends the nonparametric method to estimate labor supply developed by Blomquist and Newey (2002) to handle cases in which there are individuals who do not work. The method is then applied to married women in Sweden from 1973 to 1999. For 1999, I find an aggregate uncompensated wage...

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The persistent gender earnings gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Nopo, Hugo; Peña-Parga, Ximena - 2010

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006, corresponding to the...

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Understanding rising income inequality in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - 2010

We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe’s most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …

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New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic gaps in Latin America

Ñopo, Hugo; Atal, Juan Pablo; Winder, Natalia - 2010

This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...

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Evolution of gender wage gaps in latin america at the turn of the twentieth century : an addendum to "new century, old disparities"

Ñopo, Hugo; Hoyos, Alejandro - 2010

This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7...

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