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Optimization of Gini Coefficient Affected by Imperfect Input Data

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Business Science and Technology, 2019
Most indicators used for determining the distributional effects of taxes as well as the inequality in the income distribution are based on the Gini coefficient and the Lorenz curve to a substantial extent, although the potential application of the Gini ...
Petr David
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Socioeconomic mechanisms of myopia boom in China: a nationwide cross-sectional study

open access: yesBMJ Open, 2021
Objectives To assess the association between socioeconomic development and the myopia boom in China.Design Nationwide cross-sectional study.Setting We used data from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS 2010), and the Chinese National Survey on Students ...
Liping Li   +4 more
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The Gini coefficient reveals more [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2005
We revisit the well-known decomposition of the Gini coefficient into betweengroups, within-groups and overlap terms in the context of two groups in which the incomes in one group may be scaled and that group’s population weight modified. In this more general setting than usual, we focus on the properties of the overlap term, proving inter alia that ...
Lambert, Peter, Decoster, André
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Analyzing Global Dentist Distribution Using the Gini Coefficient [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System
Background: Each country’s health system is tasked with providing services to ensure the health of its population. Dental services are among these essential services. However, dental service utilization is unevenly distributed worldwide.
Erfan Kharazmi   +3 more
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A Gini Coefficient-Based Impartial and Open Dispatching Model

open access: yesEnergies, 2020
According to the existing widely applied impartial and open dispatching models, operation fairness was mainly emphasized, which severely restricted the optimization space of the economy of the overall system operation and affected the economic benefits ...
Liang Sun   +4 more
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Socio-economic development, income inequality and redistribution [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Tackling the issue of income equity through redistribution consists of a discussion about the extent and forms of redistribution. The study responds to the issue of income redistribution defined within the neoclassical welfare economy by addressing the ...
Halásková, Renáta   +1 more
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The Determinants of Income Inequality in Bangka Belitung Province

open access: yesМодернизация, инновация, развитие, 2021
Purpose: this research study focused on analyzing the conditions of income distribution and the determinants of the low Gini coefficient, namely the sectors that have the highest contribution, including the industrial, agricultural and trade sectors and ...
R. Nesha, R. Bernadette, A. Yulianita
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An Estimation of Gini Coefficient in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesفصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2008
The Gini coefficient is a popular and a widely used index for measuring inequality. But it does not express explicitly a parameter or a value judgment to reflect the opinion of authorities or researches.
Mohsen Jalali
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Quantifying distribution in carbon uptake and environmental measurements with the Gini coefficient

open access: yesLetters in Biomathematics, 2016
The Gini coefficient is a measure used in economics to evaluate the equitability of the distribution of a resource across a population. This project applied the Gini coefficient as a classification method for a decade-long data set consisting of ...
Mohamed N. Safi, John M. Zobitz
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Assessment of the health of Americans: the average health-related quality of life and its inequality across individuals and groups

open access: yesPopulation Health Metrics, 2005
Background The assessment of population health has traditionally relied on the population's average health measured by mortality related indicators. Researchers have increasingly recognized the importance of including information on health inequality and
Asada Yukiko
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