inequality measures
Local inequality and crime: exploring how variation in the scale of the inequality measures affects relationships betweeen inequality and crime
... the inequality in the larger areas is converted into inequality between rather than within ...within-area inequality measures which such analyses use and the heterogeneity within the social ...
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Income Inequality Measures
... Primary income data yield the most exact estimates of the income inequality coefficients, such as Gini and Pietra. Fellman [2] analyzed different methods for numerical estimation of Gini coefficients based on ...
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Measures of multidimensional between group inequality
... some measures of multidimensional interpersonal inequality, which satisfy the dominance criteria developed from the multidimensional generalization of transfer principle as well as the correlation ...
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Measuring global and regional trade integration in terms of concentration of access
... concentration/inequality measures of integration and the variety-based approach, I suggest it helps to view global or regional integration as issues of market ...
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The individual contribution to income inequality: conceptual analysis and empirical investigation
... about inequality, the patterns of influence of the determinants of inequality are investigated at the system level, the overall inequality index is used to summarise the individual-level effects of ...
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‘Williamson’s Fallacy’ in Estimation of Inter Regional Inequality
... The population of three Canadian territories comprise only 0,33% of the total country’s population. Here are the poorest and richest regions of Canada, the difference in incomes per capita between them equalling 79%. In ...
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Measuring poverty in ireland a reply
... The distinction between relative income poverty and income inequality is illustrated by the fact that overall income inequality measures do not show anything like this dramatic differenc[r] ...
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Some measures of intermediate between group inequality: Indian evidence
... multidimensional inequality was conducted by Maasoumi (1986), where the study developed a multidimensional measure of inequality by using an aggregation function that converts the multidimensional of ...
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The distribution and re distribution of income of selfemployed as freelancers and entrepreneurs in Europe
... post-government inequality of our six ...the inequality situation by two inequality aversion levels, underlines the broader lower income spread of the self-employed compared to the ...overall ...
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Do Schooling Years Improve the Earning Capacity of Lower Income Groups?
... income inequality revolves around redistribution of ...to inequality. Gini and Theil are measures of ...direct measures of redistribution into the empirical exercise, this chapter employs ...
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Crisis, Response and Distributional Impact: The Case of Ireland
... estimating inequality measures under this counterfactual “distributionally neutral” policy and under actual policy, as simulated using a tax benefit ...
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Multiple inequity in health care: An example from Brazil
... health inequality (Fleurbaey and Schokkaert, 2011; Norheim and Asada, ...unfair inequality in health outcomes rather than unfair inequality in the delivery of health ...multivariate inequality ...
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On the Functional Empirical Process and Its Application to the Mutual Influence of the Theil Like Inequality Measure and the Growth
... the inequality indices in one Gaussian field in which the study of the influence of the one over the other is ...of inequality measures including the Entropy Measure, the Mean Logarithmic Deviation, ...
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Vol 2, No 4 (2011)
... Linear measures given by Mehran (1976), whereas correspond to the Extended Gini family, which itself is a sub-family of Lorenz family of inequality ...these measures satisfy some desirable properties ...
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Analysing the Effects of Tax benefit Reforms on Income Distribution: A Decomposition Approach ESRI WP197 May 2007
... As for other factors, not directly due to taxes and bene…ts, it turns out that the sharp fall in unem- ployment has acted to reduce most of the inequality measures. There is less indication of the widening ...
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Comparing the Aitchison distance and the angular distance for use as inequality or disproportionality measures for votes and seats
... Use of the angular distance measure for voting data: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/81389/ Discussion of electoral systems: https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/82513/ The policy distance: h[r] ...
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Gender Inequality in Indian Society
... Gender inequality refers to unequal treatment or perception of individuals based on their ...Gender inequality and resultant discrimination in varying degrees on the ground of sex are commonly witnessed, ...
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A measure of mutual divergence among a number of probability distributions
... Holder’s, Renyi’s and Shannon’s inequality enable us to get a number of measure of directd divergence between two given distributions and with the help of these measures of directed dive[r] ...
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Historical Conflict and Gender Disparities
... alternatives measures (percentage of years under any type of war, or percentage of years under interstate conflict) on alternative construc- tions of the same measure (a similar measure as calculated by Alesina ...
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Inequalities in the prevalence of diabetes mellitus and its risk factors in Sri Lanka: a lower middle income country
... The inequality also seemed to vary depending on the sex of the individual. The inequalities for the prevalence of diabetes mellitus were more marked for females pos- sibly due to the gender differences in health ...
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