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Macro/Micro-Economic Modelling and Gini Multi-Decomposition: An Application to the Philippines

Mussard, Stéphane; Savard, Luc - In: Journal of Income Distribution 19 (2010) 2, pp. 51-78

in household welfare. These endogenous distributions combined with the Gini multi-decomposition provide powerful and …

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Falter, Jean-Marc - In: Journal of Income Distribution 16 (2007) 2, pp. 106-127

The present study attempts to explain the difference in observed earning inequality between self-employment and wage-employment in Switzerland in 1992, 1995 and 2000. We use several measures of inequality in order both to determine the factors affecting income dispersion in the two groups and to...

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A Note on Between-Group Inequality with an Application to Households

monti, maria giovanna; Santoro, Alessandro - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 3-4, pp. 49-62

This Note belongs to the recent literature emphasizing that the residual in the traditional Gini index decomposition … stratification to between-group inequality, and this suggests that the between-group inequality measure should be modified … accordingly. We propose a measure of between-group inequality which is a function of stratification. This is our first result …

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Rising Family Income Inequality: The Importance of Sorting

Cancian, Maria; Reed, Deborah - In: Journal of Income Distribution 21 (2012) 2, pp. 3-14

The distribution of family income reflects the distribution of personal income and the composition of families. We develop a non-parametric measure of the impact that changes in family income relationships have on the distribution of family income. Using data from Annual Social and Economic...

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The Dynamics of Low Income and Persistent Poverty Among U.S. Families

Hisnanick, John James Hisnanick, Jr. - In: Journal of Income Distribution 16 (2007) 1, pp. 115-132

Are those in poverty likely to remain there or can they move out of this situation without help from other sources? Our understanding of those in or near poverty is primarily based upon the analysis of either annual income or the income distribution from cross-sectional survey data. It has been...

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Income Inequality Trends and their Challenges to Redistribution Policies in Japan

Fukawa, Tetsuo; Oshio, Takashi - In: Journal of Income Distribution 16 (2007) 3-4, pp. 9-30

This article is an overview of income inequality trends during the 1980s and 1990s and a discussion of their challenges to redistribution policies in Japan. The key results are summarized as follows. First, a widening disparity in market income for the working-age population has been driving...

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Pro-Poor Growth and the Lognormal Distribution

Lambert, Peter J. - In: Journal of Income Distribution 19 (2010) 3-4, pp. 88-99

A widely accepted criterion for the pro-poorness of an income growth pattern is that it should reduce a (chosen) measure of poverty by more than if all incomes were growing equi-proportionately. Inequality reduction is not generally seen as either necessary or sufficient for pro-poorness. As...

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Poverty orderings and intra-household inequality: The Lost Axiom

Peluso, Eugenio; Trannoy, Alain - In: Journal of Income Distribution 18 (2009) 3-4, pp. 24-33

We investigate under which conditions it is possible to infer the evolution of poverty at the individual level from the knowledge of poverty among households. Poverty measurement is approached by the poverty orderings introduced by Foster and Shorrocks (1988). The analysis is based on a reduced...

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Convergence of Spanish Regions, 1990-2003. A New Approach Using Stochastic Dominance Techniques

Zarco, Ismael Ahamdanech; Pérez, Carmelo García; … - In: Journal of Income Distribution 19 (2010) 1, pp. 33-47

The traditional analysis of economic convergence between countries or regions is usually performed by comparing distribution means, such as per-capita income. This kind of analysis, which is intimately related to the economic welfare of a society, presents, however, only a partial approach to...

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Visualizing and Testing Convergence Between Two Income Distributions

Bishop, John A.; Chow, K. Victor; Zeager, Lester A. - In: Journal of Income Distribution 19 (2010) 1, pp. 2-19

We use the Interdistributional Lorenz Curves (ILCs) of Butler and McDonald (1987) to visualize convergence or divergence between income distributions. To illustrate the idea, we compare income distributions from Spain, Italy, and Germany. We also offer methods to test for significant differences...

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