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Global inequality: How large is the effect of top incomes?
Jorda, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - 2016
In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in household surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent and 42 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653907
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Global inequality : how large is the effect of top incomes?
Jordá, Vanesa; Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 123 (2019), pp. 1-15
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012130670
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Global Inequality : How Large is the Effect of Top Incomes?
Jordá, Vanesa - 2017
In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in household surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent and 42 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942875
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The Evolution of Global Inequality : Absolute, Relative and Intermediate Views
Bosmans, Kristof; Decancq, Koen; Decoster, André - 2011
find considerable support for the claim that world inequality increased for the absolute view and for intermediate views …We compare absolute, relative and intermediate views on the evolution of global inequality between 1980 and 2009 …. According to the relative view, inequality remains invariant after a uniform proportional change of all incomes whereas the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183629
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Talents, preferences and inequality of well-being
Ebert, Udo; Moyes, Patrick - 2010
The distribution of gross income net of taxes and transfers - or equivalenty consumption - is generally considered a reasonable approximation of the distribution of well-being in the society. One typically observes differing trends in the distribution of gross incomes across countries or within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442772
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Migration and inequalities around the Mediterranean Sea
Nilsson, Björn; Ramadan, Racha - 2020
Jordan. The results suggest that migration increases inequality in both origin and receiving countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227808
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A new inequality estimate for urban India? : using house prices to estimate inequality in Mumbai
Rongen, Gerton - 2018
This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since … the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by … coefficient of 0.447 underestimates consumption inequality in Mumbai; none of the ten investigated scenarios yields a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962529
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Economic growth evens-out happiness : evidence from six surveys
Clark, Andrew E.; Fleche, Sarah; Senik-Leygonie, Claudia - 2014
In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252825
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Trust in institutions and the profile of inequality : a worldwide perspective
Moramarco, Domenico; Palmisano, Flaviana - 2023
This paper investigates the importance of accounting for the profile of inequality in the analysis of institutional … trust. Drawing on individual data from 82 countries around the world over the 1981-2021 period, it sheds light on the … literature-a single inequality indicator. Results suggest that total income inequality and institutional trust are positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013549847
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Rising mean incomes for whom?
Krause, Melanie; Shao, Liang Frank - 2018
Not everybody is benefiting equally from rising mean incomes. We discuss the mean-income population share (MPS), defined as the population share earning less than the mean income, as an indicator of how representative the mean income is for the mass of the population. This measure is both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011928598