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Testing for Poverty Dominance : An Application to Canada

Chen, Wen-Hao; Duclos, Jean-Yves - 2021

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

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The BIP Trilogy (bipolarization, inequality and polarization) : one saga but three different stories

Deutsch, Joseph; Fusco, Alessio; Silber, Jacques - 2013

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and polarization and then suggests using the so-called Shapley...

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The BIP trilogy (bipolarization, inequality and polarization) : one saga but three different stories

Deutsch, Joseph; Fusco, Alessio; Silber, Jacques - 2012

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Target shortfall orderings and indices

Chakravarty, Satya R.; D'Ambrosio, Conchita; Mulière, … - 2003

Given any income distribution, to each income we associate a subgroup containing all persons whose incomes are not higher than this income and a person's target shortfall in a subgroup is the gap between the subgroup highest income and his own income. We then develop an absolute target shortfall...

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Equivalence scales reconsidered an empirical investigation

Bönke, Timm (contributor); Schröder, Carsten (contributor) - 2007

Income-expenditure surveys typically provide incomes on the household level. As households can differ in size and needs, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original heterogeneous into an artificial quasi-homogeneous population....

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Decomposition of Bivariate Inequality Indicesby Attributes

Abul Naga, Ramses H. - 2008

We provide, for the class of relative bidimensional inequality indices, adecomposition of inequality into two univariate Atkinson-Kolm-Senindices and a third statistic which depends on the joint distribution ofresources

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Rethinking Inequality Decomposition : Comment

Cowell, Frank - 2008

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Comparing the Homogeneity of Income Distributions Using Polarization Indices

Taptue, André-Marie - 2018

In the context of polarized societies, income homogeneity is linked to the frequency and the intensity of social unrest. Most homogenous countries exhibit a lower frequency of intense social conflicts and less homogeneous countries show a higher frequency of moderate social conflicts. This paper...

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Top Incomes and Inequality Measurement : A Comparative Analysis of Correction Methods Using the EU SILC Data

Hlasny, Vladimir - 2018

It is sometimes observed and frequently assumed that top incomes in household surveys worldwide are poorly measured and that this problem biases the measurement of income inequality. This paper tests this assumption and compares the performance of reweighting and replacing methods designed to...

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Inequality Measures in Kinetic Exchange Models of Wealth Distributions

Ghosh, Asim - 2016

In this paper, we study the inequality indices for some models of wealth exchange. We calculated Gini index and newly introduced k-index and compare the results with reported empirical data available for different countries. We have found lower and upper bounds for the indices and discuss the...

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