Search Results - subject:"Gini's coefficient"

Why reducing relative deprivation but not reducing income inequality might bring down COVID-19 infections

Stark, Oded - In: Journal of government and economics : JGE 4 (2021), pp. 1-7

We examine an assumed link between reducing inequality in income distribution, namely reducing the Gini coefficient on … other hand. The Gini coefficient can be shown to consist of two components, one of which is (a measure of) relative … of inequality in the income distribution by means of reducing the Gini coefficient does not necessarily result in …

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Examination of consumption expenditure distribution among NUTS-2 Regions in 2007-2018 with GINI Coefficient

Öztürk, Latif; Varlık, Nimet - In: Emerging Markets Journal : EMAJ 11 (2021) 1, pp. 86-94

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Does gender equality translate into economic equality? : evidence from about 150 nations

Nelson, Michael A.; Goel, Rajeev K. - 2021

This paper adds to our understanding of the causes of income inequality across nations by examining the influence of different aspects of gender equality or female empowerment. Whereas the economics of income inequality has been an area of active academic inquiry, the role of gender equality has...

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Canada : selected issues

Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2021

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The "true" level of income inequality in Pakistan

Pasha, Hafiz Ahmed - In: Pakistan journal of applied economics : PJAE 32 (2022) 1, pp. 1-14

the size and inequality in income from different sources reveal that inequality is much higher. The Gini coefficient rises …

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Kaldor and Kuznets together in a three-way growth-equity Nexus in developed and developing countries : the common decoupling of functional and household income distribution but different details of the Nexus

Lee, Juneyoung; Lee, Keun - 2021

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Does the shadow economy increase income inequality in the short- and long-run? : empirical evidence from Uganda

Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-20

This paper investigates whether the size of the shadow economy increases income inequality in Uganda. This paper applies the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration, to test the long- and short-run relationship between the shadow economy and income...

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On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress

Stark, Oded - 2023

social stress by reducing income inequality, which is typically measured by the Gini coefficient. Decomposing the coefficient … welfare, and if social welfare is reduced by social stress, then lowering the Gini coefficient may not be the right course of … lower the coefficient can actually exacerbate social stress. We formulate conditions under which lowering the Gini …

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The Impact of Inequality on the Informal Economy in Latin America and the Caribbean with a MIMIC Model

Takanohashi, Marcos; Ribeiro, Marcel; Schneider, Friedrich - 2023

Vast literature is available covering main Informal Economy (IE) causes and consequences for Latin America and Caribbean (LAC), but its size estimation has been mainly limited to worldwide models applied to the region. This paper proposes a MIMIC Base Model using a data set composed by 41...

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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress

Stark, Oded - 2023

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