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Spatial Inequality in Chile
Agostini, Claudio A.; Brown, Phil - 2007
Despite success in reducing poverty over the last twenty years, inequality in Chile has remained virtually unchanged …, making Chile one of the least equal countries in the world. High levels of inequality have been shown to hamper further …, we employ this methodology to produce consistent estimators of inequality for every county in Chile. We find a great deal …
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Change and convergence of income distributions in European Union during 2007-2014
Cseres-Gergely, Zsombor; Kvedaras, Virmantas - 2019
Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena prevalent in income distributions. Relying on quantile functions and the adapted statistical framework suggested by Székely and Rizzo (2004), we characterize the change and...
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Analysis of the Determinants of Income and Income Gap between Urban and Rural China
Su, Biwei - 2014
This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze four waves of the China Health and Nutrition...
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Distributional dynamics of income in Indian states : Inequality, reallocation, and income transitions
Sahasranaman, Anand; Kumar, Nishanth - 2021
We study the distribution of income across Indian states for 2014-19 and find significant heterogeneity in income inequality. Particularly concerning in terms of high inequality are states of Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Punjab, and Haryana –...
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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal
Attili, Federico - 2021 - Rev. ed.
This paper considers a partitioned population and develops a decomposition of the Gini index in two components, which measure the within and the between groups inequality. Differently from the most widespread inequality measure decompositions, having a between component that compares the means...
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A Pause in the Growth of Inequality in China?
Herd, Richard - 2010
In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been fairly steep since the 1980s. Policy action has taken the form of regional development measures and of reforms of various aspects of the social safety net broadly defined. The...
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Within-between decomposition of the Gini index : a novel proposal
Attili, Federico - 2020
The socioeconomic impact of spatial concentration has been receiving an increasing attention during the last two decades. Consequently, the necessity of effective measures of this phenomenon has increased too. This paper considers a population partitioned by subgroups and develops a...
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Some are more equal than others : new estimates of global and regional inequality
Darvas, Zsolt M. - 2016
We compare four methodologies to estimate the global distribution of income and find that many methods work well, but the method based on two-parameter distributions is more accurate than other methods. This method is simpler, easier to implement and relies on a more internationally-comparable...
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The geographical dimension of income and consumption inequality : evidence from the Attica Metropolitan Region of Greece
Psycharis, Yannis; Geōrgiadēs, Thōmas; Nikolopoulos, … - In: Region : the journal of ERSA 10 (2023) 1, pp. 183-197
This paper aims at examining interpersonal income and consumption inequality within the Attica Metropolitan Region, which includes Athens, the largest metropolis of Greece. It also aims to make comparisons between Attica and the rest of the country. The analysis is based on income and...
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Economic zones and local income inequality : evidence from Indonesia
Hornok, Cecília; Raeskyesa, Dewa Gede Sidan - 2022
Economic zones can be powerful drivers of economic growth in developing countries. However, less is known about their distributional impact on the local society. This paper provides empirical evidence from Indonesian provinces on the relationship between economic zones and within-province income...
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