Search Results - subject:"Gini"

Redistributive effects of social programs on income inequality in Peru : a RIF-Gini and Atkinson decomposition

Vilca Mamani, Andrés; García Castro, Erika Beatriz; … - In: Economies : open access journal 14 (2026) 3, pp. 1-21

effect of both types of programs on the Gini and Atkinson indices (ε = 0.5; 1.0 and 1.5). Food programs reduced inequality by … 2.14% according to the RIF of the Gini and by -1.23%, -2.84% and -4.82% according to the RIF of the Atkinson. Non …-food programs generated a greater reduction in the RIF of the Gini (-4.06%) and decreases of -2.52%, -3.51% and -3.06% in the …

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Inequality in the Cape colony, 1685-1844 : new measures, new evidence

Fourie, Johan - 2026

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What do we really know about inequality?

El-Shagi, Makram - 2026

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The main features of Sudan's income and wage structure in 2022

Gadallah, May Mokhtar; Amer, Nesma; Ragab, Sara; Hany, Dalia - 2026

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Anatomy of US inequality

Galor, Oded; Wainstock, Daniel C. - 2026

Is income inequality in the United States primarily driven by disparities between ethnic groups or within them? The evidence reveals a striking pattern: 96% of U.S. income inequality arises from variation within groups sharing common ancestral origins, far overshadowing the comparatively small...

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On a transformation of the Gini coefficient into a well-behaved social welfare function

Stark, Oded - 2025

Following Sen's (1973) characterization of the Gini coefficient as a ratio between a measure of aggregate income …-based stress ("depression" in Sen's terminology) and aggregate income, we transform the Gini coefficient into a social welfare … function rather than having the Gini coefficient feature as an input in a social welfare function as in Sen (1973 and 1997 …

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