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Happiness, deprivation and the alter ego

Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010

The paper focuses on satisfaction with income and proposes a utility model built on two value systems, the `Ego' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to one own past and future income - and the `Alter' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to a...

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Labor Income Polarization in Greater Buenos Aires

Viollaz, Mariana; Olivieri, Sergio; Alejo, Javier - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2009

This paper presents and analyzes a group of statistics which characterize the level and evolution of the labor income polarization in Greater Buenos Aires over the past two decades (1986-2006). The empirical evidence reveals two stages throughout those years: the first one distinguished by an...

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Happiness, Deprivation and the Alter Ego

Verme, Paolo - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2009

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Market, Social Cohesion, and Democracy

Ocampo, José Antonio - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2006

This paper offers three guiding principles for a better relationship between the economy and democracy: democracy as the extension of citizenship; democracy as diversity; and democracy as complementary to clear, strong macroeconomic rules. This view, it is argued, implies that economic and...

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Two classes of generalized deprivation indexes

Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011

The paper uses two particular formulations of the Gini index to derive two different relative deprivation measures. We then generalize the formulation of these measures following Donaldson and Weymark (1980) and Berrebi and Silber (1985) and show how these generalizations can be considered as...

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Labor income polarization in greater Buenos Aires

Viollaz, Mariana; Olivieri, Sergio; Alejo, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

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Polarization and the Middle Class in Uruguay

Borraz, Fernando; González, Nicolás; Rossi, Máximo - In: Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos … 50 (2013) 2, pp. 289-326

poverty line. Foster and Wolfson have recently developed a methodology without arbitrariness. We apply this tool and a … during the 1994-2004 and 2004-2010 periods. During the first period, characterized by increasing income inequality, the …

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A Comparison of Income and Expenditure Inequality Estimates: the Australian Evidence, 1975/76 to 1993/94.

Blacklow, P.; Ray, R. - School of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of … - 1999

1993/94. The study finds inconsistencies between the two inequality movements over much of this period. We, also, observe …

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REDISTRIBUTION

Boadway, Robin; Keen, Michael - Economics Department, Queen's University - 1999

This paper, prepared for the Handbook of Income Distribution (edited by A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon), reviews some of the central issues that arise in thinking about the motives for, politics of, constraints on and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential...

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How sensitive is regional poverty measurement in Latin America to the value of the poverty line?

Castañeda, R. Andrés; Garriga, Santiago; Gasparini, … - 2018

This paper contributes to the methodological literature on the estimation of international poverty lines for Latin … America based on the official poverty lines chosen by the Latin American governments and commonly used in the public debate …. The paper exploits a comprehensive data set of 86 up-to-date official extreme and total urban poverty lines across 18 …

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