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The barycenter of the distribution and its application to the measurement of inequality : the balance of inequality, the Gini index, and the Lorenz curve
Di Maio, Giorgio - 2022
distributions and an empirical application with the estimation of personal income inequality in Luxembourg Income Study Database …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174492
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Democracy clusters and patterns of inequality : a k-means approach
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - 2023
different inequality measures yield varying results. Despite having higher absolute inequality, country clusters with extremely … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …-quality institutions generally do not differ much in terms of inequality outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290692
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Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank A; Flachaire, … - Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics … - 2009
Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions; goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriate in the light of real-world data. Standard approaches use a distance criterion based on the EDF, an aggregation of differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838708
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Goodness-of-Fit: An Economic Approach
Bandyopadhyay, Sanghamitra; Cowell, Frank A. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2009
Specific functional forms are often used in economic models of distributions; goodness-of-fit measures are used to assess whether a functional form is appropriate in the light of real-world data.  Standard approaches use a distance criterion based on the EDF, an aggregation of differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005009764
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Race and Marriage in the Labor Market: A Discrimination Correspondence Study in a Developing Country
Arceo-Gomez, Eva O.; Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M. - Centro de Estudios Económicos, Colegio de México - 2013
In Mexico, as in most Latin American countries with indigenous populations, it is commonly believed that European phenotypes are preferred to mestizo or indigenous phenotypes. However, it is hard to test for such racial biases in the labor market using official statistics since race can only be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905959
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Efectos de los ingresos no reportados en el nivel y tendencia de la pobreza laboral en México.
Campos-Vázquez, Raymundo M. - In: Ensayos Revista de Economia XXXII (2013) 2, pp. 23-54
The proportion of wage workers with missing labor income has recently increased in Mexico. In this article, I correct the missing labor income through imputation methods. The official measurement of labor poverty indicates an increase from 42% to 53% in the 2005-2012 period, but poverty measured...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010882904
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The barycenter of the distribution and its application to the measurement of inequality: The balance of inequality, the Gini index, and the Lorenz curve
Di Maio, Giorgio - 2022
distributions and an empirical application with the estimation of personal income inequality in Luxembourg Income Study Database …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013467160
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Democracy clusters and patterns of inequality: A k-means approach
Puzon, Klarizze Anne Martin - 2023
different inequality measures yield varying results. Despite having higher absolute inequality, country clusters with extremely … high levels of democracy are characterized by lower relative inequality. They also have the lowest ratio of the income …-quality institutions generally do not differ much in terms of inequality outcomes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477521
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Factor decomposition of cross-country income inequality with interaction effects
Bracalente, Bruno; Perugini, Cristiano - Dipartimento di Economia, Università degli Studi di Perugia - 2008
In this paper we propose a decomposition of the Theil measures of per capita income inequality which accounts for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008528388
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What Lies Behind the Unprecedented Increase in Income Inequality in Finland During the 1990's
Riihelä, Marja; Sullström, Risto; Tuomala, Matti - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 2001
This study uses a decomposition analysis of income inequality by income groups and income sources to understand and … explain the inequality increase in Finland during the 1990's. Several conclusions can be drawn from our results. Total … inequality rose significantly during the latter part of the 1990's. The results suggest that capital income is the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545846