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Inequality and well-being in income distribution, 1973-2000
Ayala, Luis; Jurado Málaga, Antonio; Pedraja Chaparro, … - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2006) 8, pp. 5-30
convergence process. We also use abbreviated social welfare functions in order to capture regional differences and their changes …
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Conceptualizing and Measuring Quality of Life for National Policy
Johansson, Sten - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 2001
is used to get from a narrow concept of material welfare that can be measured in money to a wider concept of welfare that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207102
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Trends in Inequality, Welfare, and Growth in Pakistan, 1963-64 to 2004-05
Zakir, Nadia; Idrees, Muhammad - Pakistan Institute of Development Economics - 2009
The present study investigates the trends in inequality, welfare, and growth based on per capita household income … and the Sen welfare index to estimate welfare. Real per capita mean incomes/consumption are worked out to analyse growth …. The study finds fluctuating trends in inequality, and rising trends in both welfare and growth. In general, inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005087534
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Trends in Inequality, Welfare, and Growth in Pakistan, 1963-64 to 2004-05
Zakir, Nadia; Idrees, Muhammad - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
The present study investigates the trends in inequality, welfare, and growth based on per capita household income … and the Sen welfare index to estimate welfare. Real per capita mean incomes/consumption are worked out to analyse growth …. The study finds fluctuating trends in inequality, and rising trends in both welfare and growth. In general, inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365371
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Poverty in the Czech Republic : unemployment, pensions, and regional differences
Kolář, Daniel - 2024
The Czech Republic has experienced a remarkable decline in the unemployment rate but not in relative poverty. I address this and other facts by analysing the evolution of absolute and relative poverty over the 2004-2021 period. I first document a remarkable decline in absolute poverty in poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069594
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Inequality within countries is falling : underreporting robust estimates of world poverty, inequality, and the global distribution of income
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; … - 2024
Household surveys suffer from persistent and growing underreporting. We propose a novel procedure to adjust reported survey incomes for underreporting by estimating a model of misreporting whose main parameter of interest is the elasticity of regional national accounts income to regional survey...
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La desigualdad en México: cambios en el largo plazo (1968-2002)
Camberos, Mario - In: Revista Nicolaita de Estudios Económicos II (2007) 1, pp. 75-94
This paper analyzes the Mexican long-term changes of income distribution inequality by factors’ decomposition during the period 1968-2002. Dominance and ordering criteria is used, and also a parametric estimation (Fields, 2003) using Theil’s index decomposition. Monetary income of...
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Inequality and welfare in Spain and its Autonomous Communities
Goerlich, Francisco José; Villar, Antonio - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
distribution have contributed to the increase in welfare beyond the observed increase in per capita income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550061
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Modelling Agricultural Trade and Policy Impacts in Less Developed Countries
Brooks, Jonathan; Dyer, George; Taylor, Ed - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2008
This paper proposes a methodological framework for examining the distributional effects of alternative agricultural policies in less developed economies. The framework combines disaggregated household models with an explicit modelling of the linkages between product and factor markets.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049229
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Statistical Inference and Lorenz Curves: An empirical example using Finnish Income Data
Aura, Saku - Valtion taloudellinen tutkimuskeskus (VATT), Government … - 1996
generalisations. These curves are useful devices for examining welfare and inequality. Asymptotical sampling properties of the Lorenz … Lorenz criterion it is also found out that welfare in income distribution has been rising in chronological order for the …
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