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The measurement of individual well-being and group inequalities : essays in memory of Z. M. Berrebi

Berrebi, Z. M. (contributor); Deutsch, Joseph (contributor); … - 2011

. 4. On the decomposition of income and wage inequality -- pt. 5. Individual well-being and poverty. …

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Leyen, Kaja von der - 2012

Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...

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The Decomposition of the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani Re-Ranking Measure

Monti, Maria Giovanna - 2015

This article introduces a new matrix approach, based on pairwise income comparisons, to decompose the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani re-ranking measure when income units are gathered into groups. As it is known the Atkinson-Plotnick-Kakwani re-ranking measure is defined by the difference between the...

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Tale of two ginis in the United States, 1921 - 2012

Schneider, Markus; Tavani, Daniele - 2015

Following a methodology proposed by Jantzen and Volpert (2012), we use IRS Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) data for the United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income distribution. We also calculate the overall Gini index...

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Poorest made poorer? : decomposing income losses at the bottom of the income distribution during the Great Recession

Savage, Michael - 2016

On the basis of anonymous (or cross-sectional) analyses, income losses during the Great Recession in a number of European countries were concentrated among the poorest ten per cent of the population. The anonymous approach however, which simply compares the distribution of income at two points...

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Does gender equality translate into economic equality? : evidence from about 150 nations

Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021

This paper adds to our understanding of the causes of income inequality across nations by examining the influence of different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has...

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It is expensive being young and poor or being old and in the middle class

Scharrer, Christian - 2022

This paper studies the age-group-specific evolution of inequality of total income among highly and less educated females and males at ages 26-80 from 2005 to 2018. On the one hand, it presents time series of Gini coefficients and associated decompositions by different income components. On the...

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Evolution of inequality in Nigeria : a tale of falling inequality, rising poverty and regional heterogeneity

Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2022

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … the upper class has benefited from economic growth in Nigeria over time. The disconnect between these findings and … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then explore how changes in …

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Growth and income redistribution components of changes in poverty : a decomposition analysis for Ireland, 1987 - 2005

Are, Wasiu Adekunle - 2012

This study analysed the contribution of economic growth and redistribution components to aggregate poverty changes in … from the Household Budget Survey to calculate poverty indices. The result of the Shapley value decomposition of poverty … bringing about the decline in poverty. This suggests that the drastic fall in absolute poverty over the survey period could be …

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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2021

This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We … introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international …

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