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Poorest made poorer? Decomposing income losses at the bottom of the income distribution during the Great Recession

Savage, Michael - 2016

On the basis of anonymous (or cross-sectional) analyses, income losses during the Great Recession in a number of European countries were concentrated among the poorest ten per cent of the population. The anonymous approach however, which simply compares the distribution of income at two points...

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Poorest made poorer? : decomposing income losses at the bottom of the income distribution during the Great Recession

Savage, Michael - 2016

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Hammond Equity: a Generalization.

Tungodden, B. - Norges Handelshøyskole (NHH) - 1999

We generalize Hammond's characterisation of leximin by introducing a very weak two-person equity condition. In addition to strengthening the defence of the leximin principle, this result is of interest from a more technical point of view. Contrary to the present understanding in the literature...

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Income Risk, Income Mobility and Welfare

Krebs, Tom; Krishna, Pravin; Maloney, William F. - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2013

This paper develops a framework for the quantitative analysis of individual income dynamics, mobility and welfare. Individual income is assumed to follow a stochastic process with two (unobserved) components, an i.i.d. component representing measurement error or transitory income shocks and an...

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Consensus income distribution

Stark, Oded; Falniowski, Fryderyk; Jakubek, Marcin - 2017

social planner's aversion to inequality, embedded in an isoelastic social welfare function indexed by a parameter alpha, or …

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European schemes of social assistance: an empirical analysis of set-ups and distributive impacts

Kraus, Margit; Hölsch, Katja - 2002

This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social assistance are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory...

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An investigation of (non-) inclusive growth in Nigeria's sub-nationals: Evidence from elasticity approach

Udoh, Enobong; Ayara, Ndem - In: Economies 5 (2017) 4, pp. 1-17

index of inequality elasticity of poverty. The study puts forward a scenario matrix to hypothesize the four qualities of … growth according to its interactions with inequality and poverty. This model is useful for developing countries that lack GDP …

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Bolivia: Los avances sociales y laborales en el periodo de boom económico y los desafíos con el fin de la bonanza

Wanderley, Fernanda - 2018

inequality following the trend of Latin America. The analysis of the evolution of the Unsatisfied Basic Needs Index (NBI) also …

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Using linked survey and administrative data to better measure income: Implications for poverty, program effectiveness and holes in the safety net

Meyer, Bruce D.; Mittag, Nikolas - 2015

inequality statistics, but provide evidence that our qualitative conclusions are likely to apply to other surveys. We link …

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Inequality, poverty and child benefits: Evidence from a natural experiment

Paradowski, Piotr R.; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna; … - 2020

Family 500 +) on inequality and poverty. The analysis is based on micro-level household data from the Luxembourg Income Study … (LIS) and Statistics Poland. We examine the changes in various indicators of inequality and poverty (Gini index, subjective … and relative poverty rates) and their decomposition. We find evidence that the program substantially reduces inequality …

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