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Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2022

I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality â that it has changed little over the last 30 years â and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a number of fundamental issues in inequality measurement related to inequality concepts (e.g., inequality...

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Measuring Segregation When Hierarchy Matters

Hutchens, Robert - 2012

This paper considers the problem of measuring segregation when groups form a hierarchy whereby some groups have greater economic status than others. While existing measures of segregation address the case where people are unequally distributed across groups with the same economic status, concern...

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Wealth distribution, peasant production and poverty traps in African smallholder agriculture

Hoogeveen, Johannes - 1999

A model is developed for peasant households in land abundant areas who choose between two technologies for land preparation: a manual one and one using draught animals. For draught a minimum number of animals is required so that a technological non convexity exists. It follows that certain...

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Why Praise Inequality? Public Good Provision, Income Distribution and Social Welfare

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2011

We consider a two-person Cournot game of voluntary contributions to a public good with identical individual preferences, and examine equilibrium aggregate welfare under a separable, symmetric and concave social welfare function. Assuming the public good is pure, Itaya, de Meza and Myles (Econ....

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Comparing Distributions of Ordinal Data

Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2020

To compare distributions of ordinal data such as individuals' responses on Likert-type scale variables summarizing subjective well-being, we should not apply the toolbox of methods developed for cardinal variables such as income. Instead we should use an analogous toolbox which takes account of...

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The Individual Perception of Wage Inequality : A Measurement Framework and Some Empirical Evidence

Kuhn, Andreas - 2016

This paper presents a simple conceptual framework specifically tailored to measure individual perceptions of wage inequality. Using internationally comparable survey data, the empirical part of the paper documents that there is huge variation in inequality perceptions both across and within...

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A Theory of Child Targeting

Bargain, Olivier - 2007

There is a large empirical literature on policy measures targeted at children but surprisingly very little theoretical foundation to ground the debate on the optimality of the different instruments. In the present paper, we examine the merit of targeting children through two general policies,...

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A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare

Stark, Oded; Budzinski, Wiktor - 2022

The Gini coefficient features prominently in Amartya Sen's 1973 and 1997 seminal work on income inequality and social … welfare. We construct the Gini coefficient from socialpsychological building blocks, reformulating it as a ratio between a … Gini coefficient increases. By integrating our approach to the construction of the Gini coefficient with Sen's social …

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Multidimensional Affluence : Theory and Applications to Germany and the US

Peichl, Andreas - 2011

This paper suggests multidimensional affluence measures for the top of the distribution. In contrast to commonly used top income shares, they allow the analysis of the extent, intensity and breadth of affluence in several dimensions within a common framework. We illustrate this by analyzing the...

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Lower and Upper Bounds of Unfair Inequality : Theory and Evidence for Germany and the US

Niehues, Judith - 2011

Previous estimates of unfair inequality of opportunity (IOp) are only lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set of endowed circumstances beyond the sphere of individual responsibility. In this paper, we suggest a new estimator based on a fixed effects panel model which...

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