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The current financial turbulence in Europe inspires and perhaps requires researchers to rethink how to measure incomes, wealth, and other parameters of interest to policy-makers and others. The noticeable increase in disparities between less and more fortunate individuals suggests that measures...
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The distortion parameter reflects the amount of loading in insurance premiums. A specific value of a given premium determines a value of the distortion parameter, which depends on the underlying loss distribution. Estimating the parameter, therefore, becomes a statistical inferential problem,...
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Existing empirical evidence suggests that the effects of Vietnam veteran status on earnings in the decade-and-a-half following service may be concentrated in the lower tail of the earnings distribution. Motivated by this evidence, we develop a formal statistical procedure that is specifically...
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