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,600 estimated Gini coefficients, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last …
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Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
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Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874411
We describe methods of combining administrative and survey data to improve the measurement of income. We begin by … error from weighting), item non-response or imputation error, and measurement error. We then discuss these three sources of … the potential of linked data by showing how using linked administrative variables improves the measurement of income and …
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Empirical research on poverty today often goes beyond a focus on income to consider other dimensions of well-being. However, relatively few multidimensional poverty measures explicitly consider time, despite its particular relevance to women's double burden of paid and unpaid work. We construct...
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impact of long-run inflation. We observe significant redistributional effects as inflation acts as a regressive tax on …
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of these trends to changes in inflation and unemployment were similar during this period. We find that unemployment does … not significantly affect the inequality measures and that inflation has a progressive effect, i.e., that a decrease in … inflation is associated with an increase in inequality. Finally, we find that the relationship between inequality and …
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Inflation rates differ across households depending on their sociodemographic characteristics. This paper calculates the … inflation rates experienced by income quintiles in the US, the EU, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK between 2001 and … 2021. The results indicate substantial inflation inequality between quintiles. Households with lower income experienced …
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independent. We argue that the way status is conceptualized has important theoretical implications for measurement as well as for … methods for making health inequality comparisons. Findings suggest significant differences in health inequality measurement …
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