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Analysing the Effects of Tax-benefit Reforms on Income Distribution - A Decomposition Approach

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2007

composition, employment level, etc.). Then, the decomposition helps to extract an absolute measure of the impact of tax … countries. Finally, the full decomposition allows quantifying the relative role of policy changes compared to all other fac …- tors. We provide an illustration on France and Ireland and check the sensitivity of the results to the decomposition order. …

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Urbanization and the spread of diseases of affluence in China

Van de Poel, E; O'Donnell, O; van Doorslaer, E - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2008

more urbanized areas. Decomposition analysis shows that urbanicity-related inequalities are mostly attributable to …

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Measurement and Sources of Income Inequality among Rural and Urban Households in Nigeria

Oyekale, Abayomi Samuel; Adeoti, Adetola Ibidunni; … - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2006

Income inequality and poverty are closely related. This study decomposed income inequality in Nigeria using the Gini-decomposition …

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Maximal Decompositions of Cost Games into Specific and Joint Costs

Moreaux, Michel; Truchon, Michel - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 2002

The problem in which some agents joint together to realize a set of projects and must decide how to share its cost may be seen as a cooperative cost game. In many instances, total cost may naturally be decomposed into joint costs and costs that are specific to individual agents. We show that the...

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On the Post-Unification Development of Public and Private Pay in Germany

Heitmueller, Axel; Mavromaras, Kostas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

German post-unification in the 1990s is a period that was marked by substantial economic change, part of which was East German wages building towards the much higher West German levels. This paper studies the public-private pay gap in the fast changing economic and political environment of the...

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Multivariate Decomposition for Hazard Rate Models

Powers, Daniel A.; Yun, Myeong-Su - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We develop a regression decomposition technique for hazard rate models, where the difference in observed rates is … computational details underlying the method and apply the technique to the decomposition of the black-white difference in first …

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Gender Pay Gap in Poland

Grajek, Michał - In: Economic Change and Restructuring 36 (2003) 1, pp. 23-44

In this paper we examine the gender pay gap in Poland over 1987–1996, i.e., shortly before and during the transition to market economy. The principle source of data used throughout the paper is the Household Budget Survey conducted by the Polish Central Statistical Office. The study documents...

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Decomposing Simulation Results with Respect to Exogenous Shocks

Harrison, W. Jill; Horridge, J. Mark; Pearson, K.R. - In: Computational Economics 15 (2000) 3, pp. 227-249

obtained via the decomposition are related to the estimates in the published study of the contributions to welfare gain due to … that will be made publicly available in the future. The contributions that make up the decomposition are defined as …

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Measuring the Impact of Growth and Income Distribution on Poverty in India

Dhongde, Shatakshee - In: Journal of Income Distribution 16 (2007) 2, pp. 25-48

Since the economic reforms of the early 1990s, the Indian economy witnessed a rapid rise in the mean income level, and, simultaneously, changes in the distribution of income. This study tries to capture how these changes affected poverty levels across major states in India. Total change in...

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A European Analysis of Changes in Gender Specific Wage Inequality Using Decomposition Methods

Behr, Andreas - In: Journal of Income Distribution 16 (2007) 1, pp. 50-73

used throughout is the User Data Base (UDB) of the European Community Household Panel (ECHP). The decomposition analysis is … components to isolate the forces underlying the wage change. While the decomposition method is in the spirit of the well known … Oaxaca decomposition (1973), in the approach of Juhn, Murphy, and Pierce the residual of Mincerian-earnings equations is …

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