This paper points out the main e1ements under analysis in a study aimed at bringing out the relevant causes of inflation in each kind of economic structure. Thus, it stresses the necessity of a direct answer to questions like when, where, why and how an inflationary process is generated as well...

Dagum and Slottje (2000) estimated household human capital (HC) as a latent variable (LV) and proposed its monetary estimation by means of an actuarial approach. This paper introduces an improved method for the estimation of household HC as an LV by means of formative and reflective indicators...

The purpose of this research is to introduce a new approach to the decomposition of the Gini ratio into three components, supporting them with economic and statistical rigorous interpretations. The three components are: (i) the Gini inequality within subpopulations; (ii) the net contribution of...

Se presentan y analizan los índices de desigualdad de Gini, de Atkinson y de la entropía generalizada. Para este último se estudian los casos particulares de Theil y de Bourguignon. Se discuten los méritos de cada uno de dichos índices desde el punto de vista del cumplimiento de propiedades...

Personal income tax records are used to analyse income distributions and income differentials by sex for the period 1969 to 1981 in four Canadian metropolitan areas: Chicoutimi-Jonquière, London, Saskatoon and Sudbury. These areas were selected to permit an analysis for geographic regions that...

In this paper we provide an overview of some trend models formulated for global and local estimation. Global trend models are based on the assumption that the trend or nonstationary mean of a time series can be approximated closely by simple functions of time over the entire span of the series....