Search Results - subject:"Gini's coefficient"

Subsidies and the income inequality in the Hungarian wine sector

Fertő, Imre; Bojnec, Štefan - In: Wine Economics and Policy 12 (2023) 2, pp. 3-14

Farm Accountancy Data Network data for the period 2013-2019. The decomposition of the Gini coefficient is applied to focus …

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Localising the upper tail : how top income corrections affect measures of regional inequality

Emmenegger, Jana; Münnich, Ralf T. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 243 (2023) 3/4, pp. 285-317

Poor coverage of top incomes in surveys, also referred to as the "missing rich" problem, leads to severe underestimation of income inequality. At the regional level this shortcoming is even more eminent due to small regional sample sizes. Tax records contain more accurate income information at...

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The impact of recent economic crises on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece

Petrakos, George; Rontos, Kōnstantinos; Vavoura, Chara; … - In: Economies : open access journal 11 (2023) 6, pp. 1-23

We consider the impact of the two recent economic crises, one that resulted from the great recession of 2007-2009 and one following the COVID-19 pandemic, on income inequality and the risk of poverty in Greece. To this end, we also investigate the key macroeconomic variables affecting the Greek...

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Poverty decompositions with counterfactual income and inequality dynamics

Hartmann, Vanessa; Wacker, Konstantin - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 27 (2023) 3, pp. 1746-1768

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"COVID-19 and income inequality in OECD countries" : a methodological comment

Stark, Oded - In: The European journal of health economics 24 (2023) 7, pp. 1235-1237

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Estimating historical inequality from social tables : towards methodological consistency

Fintel, Dieter von; Links, Calumet; Green, Erik - 2023

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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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"Covid-19 and income inequality in OECD countries" : a methodological comment

Stark, Oded - 2023

Wildman (2021), who identifies "a clear association between income inequality [measured by the Gini coefficient] and …] improve [the COVID-19 outcomes /] underlying health of their populations." In this Comment, we argue that reducing the Gini … coefficient of the income distribution of a population need not weaken the population's social stress. It is this stress which is …

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Panel data analysis of internal conflict and income inequality

Parsons, Brandon; Naghshpour, Shahdad - In: European journal of government and economics : EJGE 12 (2023) 1, pp. 79-101

The study determines how worsening internal and external conflict affects income inequality. The paper accounts for contributing variables and analyzes panel data in an unbalanced panel of 106 countries from 1988 to 2018-the panel data model groups by development status. The econometric model...

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Estimating historical inequality from social tables : towards methodological consistency

Fintel, Dieter von; Links, Calumet; Green, Erik - 2023

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314277