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Ungrouping income distributions: Synthesising samples for inequality and poverty analysis

Shorrocks, Anthony; Wan, Guanghua - 2008

counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …

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Relative deprivation, personal income satisfaction, and average well-being under different income distributions

Seidl, Christian; Traub, Stefan; Morone, Andrea - 2005

This paper uses the data gained from an income categorization experiment for five shapes of income distributions to investigate background context effects, relative deprivation, range-frequency theory to explain background context effects, individual income satisfaction versus aggregate...

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Measuring inequality without the Pigou-Dalton condition

Chateauneuf, Alain; Moyes, Patrick - 2005

Typical welfare and inequality measures are required to be Lorenz consistent which guarantees that inequality decreases and welfare increases as a result of a progressive transfer. We explore the implications for welfare and inequality measurement of substituting the weaker absolute...

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National and international income dispersion and aggregate expenditures

Fillat Castejón, Carmen; Francois, Joseph F. - 2004

We examine linkages between aggregate household income, distribution of that income, and aggregate cross-country expenditure patterns. We are able to decompose income effects into international income dispersion effects (from variations in average income) and national income dispersion (income...

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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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A new inequality measure that is sensitive to extreme values and asymmetries

McAleer, Michael; Ryu, Hang-keun; Slottje, Daniel Jonathan - 2017

properties such a measure (or index) should contain. The Gini index is, of course, the most popular. There is a concurrent … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … measure to supplement, but not to replace, the Gini that measures more accurately the inherent asymmetries and extreme values …

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Assessing poverty and inequality at a detailed regional level: New advances in spatial microsimulation

Harding, Ann; Lloyd, Rachel; Bill, Anthea; King, Anthony - 2004

During the past three years NATSEM has developed pathbreaking spatial microsimulation techniques, involving the creation of synthetic data about the socioeconomic characteristics of households at a detailed regional level. The data are potentially available at any level of geographic...

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Inequality in historical perspective

Jolly, Richard - 2006

Adam Smith, Tom Paine, John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx were all bold and outspoken about the injustices of extreme inequality, nationally and internationally. Yet by almost every standard, global inequality has grown substantially since they were writing, and national income inequality also over...

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Inequality and the impact of growth on poverty: Comparative evidence for Sub-Saharan Africa

Fosu, Augustin Kwasi - 2008

This study explores the extent to which inequality affects the impact of income growth on the rates of poverty changes in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) comparatively with non-SSA, based on a global sample of 1977-2004 unbalanced panel data. For both regions and all three measures of poverty -...

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Linkages between pro-poor growth, social programmes and labour market: The recent Brazilian experience

Kakwani, Nanak; Neri, Marcelo; Son, Hyun H. - 2009

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its globalization process, focusing on the role played by the labour market and social programmes. Methodologically, the paper makes two contributions to the literature. One is the proposal of...

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