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inequality of income and expenditure over that period. The paper calculates Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz curves and also the … Growth Incidence Curve of Ravallion and Chen to investigate the extent to which growth was “pro-poor”. The paper also … examines the composition of changes in inequality of income over the period. …
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explores the relationship between income growth and income inequality using data at the municipal level in Sweden for the … period 1992-2007. We estimate a fixed effects panel data growth model, where the within-municipality income inequality is one … between income growth and income inequality measured as the Gini coefficient and top income shares, respectively. In addition …
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This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a multidimensional setting by considering the joint...
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well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
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This paper examines the sensitivity of inequality and poverty measures to the choice of adult equivalence scales and …
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In this paper we compute inequality measures over the distribution of a subjective well-being variable constructed from … inequality in subjective well-being may be a better proxy for the degree of unfairness in a society than income inequality. We … find evidence that inequality in subjective well-being has an inverse-U relationship with per capita GDP, but it is …
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well-being is much less investigated. It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined … concept of inequality in happiness or SWB. Finally, we plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277027
It is argued that the concept of well-being inequality cannot be properly defined without taking the referencing … happiness inequality in happiness studies. We plead for an extension of the present happiness paradigm by setting up a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277032
-assessed health status? Has average well-being increased or well-being inequality decreased? How does the distribution of well …
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Non-intersection of appropriately-defined Generalized Lorenz (GL) curves is equivalent to a unanimous ranking of … distributions of ordinal data by all Cowell and Flachaire (Economica 2017) indices of inequality and by a new index based on GL … inequality rankings. …
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