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How Has the Literature on Gini's Index Evolved in the Past 80 Years? [PDF]

open access: yes
The Gini coefficient or index is perhaps one of the most used indicators of social and economic conditions. From its first proposal in English in 1921 to the present, a large number of papers on the Gini index has been written and published.
Kuan Xu
core  

Perceived Economic Inequality and Progressive Taxation: The Moderator Role of Upward Mobility Beliefs

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Attitudes toward redistribution have been widely studied, yet individuals respond differently to specific policies. Progressive taxation is one of the most effective mechanisms for reducing inequality and fostering more egalitarian societies, but little is known about the psychological factors shaping support for it.
Juan Matamoros‐Lima   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is the Gini Index of Inequality Overly Sensitive to Changes in the Middle of the Income Distribution?

open access: yesStatistics and Public Policy, 2017
The Gini index is the most commonly used measure of income inequality. Like any single summary measure of a set of data, it cannot capture all aspects that are of interest to researchers.
Joseph L. Gastwirth
doaj   +1 more source

Jackknife Empirical Likelihood-based inference for S-Gini indices

open access: yes, 2018
Widely used income inequality measure, Gini index is extended to form a family of income inequality measures known as Single-Series Gini (S-Gini) indices.
Kattumannil, Sudheesh K   +2 more
core  

The Distributive Consequences of Active Welfare Policies in Europe

open access: yesEuropean Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines the distributive consequences of active welfare policies in Europe by analysing tier‐specific investments in individualised employment services across four European welfare states: Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
Deborah Jackwerth‐Rice   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

An elementary characterization of the Gini index [PDF]

open access: yes
The Gini coefficient or index is perhaps one of the most used indicators of social and economic conditions. In this paper we characterize the Gini index as the unique function that satisfies the properties of scale invariance, symmetry, proportionality ...
Plata-Perez, Leobardo   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The Impact of Resource Endowment and Digital Transformation on the Efficiency of Energy Transition

open access: yesEnergy Science &Engineering, EarlyView.
Resource endowment has a significant positive direct effect and a stronger spatial spillover effect on ETE, while digital transformation can improve local efficiency but has some negative spillover effects on neighboring regions. ABSTRACT In contemporary society, improving energy transition efficiency (ETE) has become a necessary measure to ensure the ...
Junding Yang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feature selection based on neighborhood rough sets and Gini index. [PDF]

open access: yesPeerJ Comput Sci, 2023
Zhang Y   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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