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Can Redistributive State Taxes Reduce Inequality? [PDF]
Do income taxes levied at a state or regional level affect the after-tax distribution of income? Or do workers merely move between regions, causing pre-tax wages to adjust?
Andrew Leigh
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The Gini index: A proposal for revision
Revista Electrónica de Comunicaciones y Trabajos de ASEPUMA, 2020 The Gini index is widely used in statistics for the study of equity in the distribution of a variable. However, its definition has several formulations and its use sometimes has hidden problems that can lead to incorrect conclusions. That is the reason why it is necessary to make some remarks this regard and even formulate some proposals to clarify ...
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Priorities of the Russian business environment: The Gini index, personal income tax and key interest rate [PDF]
, 2019 Valerii V. SMIRNOV, A.V. Mulendeeva
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Revisiting the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Crime: A Global Analysis
International Studies of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Drawing upon extensive literature on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) spillovers, we hypothesize that FDI inflow represents a double‐edged sword with respect to crime in host countries. On one hand, FDI can contribute to economic growth and social well‐being by infusing capital and knowledge into the host countries, thereby potentially ...
Yuan Chen +3 more
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f-Gintropy: An Entropic Distance Ranking Based on the Gini Index. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2022 Biró TS, Telcs A, Józsa M, Néda Z.
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Journal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH), a highly toxic rocket propellant with known multiorgan effects, requires urgent characterization of its chronic low‐dose toxicity. Using an integrated approach including exploratory transcriptomics (n = 3/group) and metabolomic (n = 4/group) approaches in male Sprague–Dawley rats exposed to high‐dose ...
Fuzhou Liu +6 more
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Analysis of inequality via social stratification
Entreciencias: Diálogos en la Sociedad del Conocimiento, 2020 To analyze the contribution that social stratification provides to inequality using the Gini index as an input. Methodology: The compatible differences tool was used to calculate the percentage of income provided by social strata using the Gini index ...
Luz Judith Rodríguez Esparza +3 more
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PLoS ONE, 2014 Most inequality research on the relationship between inequality and mental health has focused on cross-country variation. Findings from within-country data are mixed. We examined whether changes in municipal Gini index or in the share of people living in
Heikki Hiilamo
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Measuring the Socio-Economic Bipolarization Phenomenon [PDF]
The present paper emphasizes the differences between the Gini concentration coefficient [13] and a new bipolarization index proposed by [20], [21]. In practice, the Gini index is applied frequently to determine the poverty degree of the persons of a ...
Stefananescu, Stefan
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Journal of Clinical Laboratory Analysis, EarlyView.This study applies machine learning methods, specifically Random Forest and Bagged CART, to classify Cryptosporidium spp. infections among children and identify key risk factors. The Bagged CART model demonstrated superior sensitivity and predictive performance, highlighting household crowding and water source as the most influential determinants of ...
Türkan Mutlu Yar +2 more
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