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Sample sizes for reliably estimating lower and upper income shares in income distribution analysis

Beach, Charles M. - 2023

published by statistical agencies as measures of the distribution of income inequality - to calculate how large a survey sample …

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Fairness in education: the Italian university before and after the reform

Brunori, Paolo; Peragine, Vito; Serlenga, Laura - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2010

literature, we then discuss existing inequality of opportunity measures consistent with these criteria, we show their …

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"Quality of Match for Statistical Matches Used in the 1995 and 2005 LIMEW Estimates for Great Britain"

Masterson, Thomas - Levy Economics Institute - 2011

The quality of match of four statistical matches used in the LIMEW estimates for Great Britain for 1995 and 2005 is described. The first match combines the fifth (1995) wave of the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) with the 1995–96 Family Resources Survey (FRS). The second match combines...

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Gender Earnings Gaps in the World

Nopo, Hugo; Daza, Nancy; Ramos, Johanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender...

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El impacto de la geografía sobre la riqueza: autocorrelación espacial, movilidad regional, esquemas convergentes y dinámica temporal del ingreso per cápita, en México.

Roberto Guerrero Compeán. - In: Ensayos Revista de Economia XXVI (2007) 1, pp. 45-114

La necesidad de definir una visión estratégica del desarrollo en el nuevo entorno nacional ha generado un replanteamiento de los enfoques y métodos de la ciencia regional. Este nuevo enfoque se ha traducido en un amplio debate dentro del contexto de interpretación de las nuevas realidades y...

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Los Cambios en la Distribución del Ingreso de Argentina entre 1998 Y 2005: Un Análisis de Microdescomposiciones Utilizando Información de Paneles

Zoloa, Juan Ignacio - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2011

This paper analyses the changes in inequality occurred during the period 1998 – 2005. A set of results are presented in … order to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in inequality. The obtained results show that important … played an important role in the rise in inequality while the rise in the unobservable factors and the higher levels of …

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Can Employment Changes Explain Rising Income Inequality in Germany?

Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - In: Schmollers Jahrbuch : Journal of Applied Social Science … 131 (2011) 2, pp. 349-357

From 2000 to 2005, Germany experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the …’ conditional employment outcomes were partly responsible for the observed inequality increase. Using DiNardo …/Fortin/Lemieux’s semiparametric kernel density reweighting method, we examine what part of the inequality and poverty increase can be accounted for by …

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Inequality of educational opportunity in Italy:how fair is the “3+2" reform?

Brunori, Paolo; Peragine, Vito; Serlenga, Laura - In: Giornale degli Economisti 70 (2011) 1, pp. 65-95

inequality measures based on such conceptual framework, and we use these measures to evaluate the 1999 reform of the Italian …

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"Quality of Match for Statistical Matches Used in the 1992 and 2007 LIMEW Estimates for the United States"

Masterson, Thomas - Levy Economics Institute - 2010

The quality of match of four statistical matches used in the LIMEW estimates for the United States for 1992 and 2007 is described. The first match combines the 1992 Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) with the 1993 March Supplement to the Current Population Survey, or Annual Demographic Supplement...

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Gender Earnings Gaps in the Caribbean: Evidence from Barbados and Jamaica

Ñopo, Hugo; Bellony, Annelle; Hoyos, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This paper analyzes gender earnings gaps in Barbados and Jamaica, using a matching comparisons approach. In both countries, as in most of the Caribbean region, females’ educational achievement is higher than that of males. Nonetheless, males’ earnings surpass those of their female peers....

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