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A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and other unit characteristics. Different methods of decomposing changes in poverty into growth, redistribution, poverty standard and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261971

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

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

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 inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262015

The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in empirical analysis of global income inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant factors along with quantification of their impacts and empirical results from different case studies are presented. These...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262018

Continental and Sub-Continental Income Inequality

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at regions defined as equivalent of continental and sub-continental levels. We investigate the economic disparity between...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262022

Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries

Heshmati, Almas - 2004

Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262053

The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632

Poverty in early modern Europe: New approaches to old problems

Alfani, Guido; Ammannati, Francesco; Ryckbosch, Wouter - 2022

Earlier research on poverty failed to provide us with consistent measures of its prevalence across space and time. This is due to the limitations of the available sources and to the difficulty of applying to them the poverty definitions of modern social science. This article discusses different...

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Harmonious relations: Quality transmission among composers in the very long run

Borowiecki, Karol Jan; Ford, Nicholas; Marchenko, Maria - 2022

Most creatives acquire professional talents by learning from others, but in most settings it is difficult to estimate the existence of long-term effects. This paper explores the transmission of skills over a period of more than seven centuries by focusing on the case of music composers. We ask...

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Wealth and Its Distribution in Germany, 1895-2018

Albers, Thilo N. H.; Bartels, Charlotte; Schularick, Moritz - 2022

insights into the role of country-specific shocks in shaping long-run wealth dynamics. This paper presents the first … comprehensive study of wealth and its distribution in Germany since the 19th century. We combine tax and archival data, household … surveys, historical national accounts, and rich lists to analyze the evolution of the German wealth distribution over the long …

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Plague and long-term development: the lasting effects of the 1629-30 epidemic on the Italian cities

Alfani, Guido; Percoco, Marco - 2016

The paper aims to analyze the effects of plague on the long-term development of Italian cities, with particular attention to the 1629-30 epidemic. By using a new dataset on plague mortality rates in 49 cities covering the period 1575-1700 ca., an economic geography model verifying the existence...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669456