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Inequality Preserving Rationing [PDF]
The present paper considers rationing problems interpreted as e.g. bankruptcy problems or taxation problems. We demonstrate that among the continuous and order-preserving rationing methods, theproportional method is the only rationing method that ...
Lars Peter Østerdal, Jens Leth Hougaard
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Why Migrants' Remittances Reduce Income Inequality in some Countries and not in Others? [PDF]
According to the literature, the effect of remittances on income inequality in origin countries of migrants is not clear, whatever empirical approach is used.
Maëlan Le Goff, Christian Ebeke
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Measuring inequality of poverty: theory and an application to India [PDF]
The commonly used poverty indices measure the overall level of poverty in a society but fail to capture the differential intensity across different socioeconomic groups.
Singh, Ashish
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Inequality, poverty, and the Kuznets curve in Spain : 1850-2000. [PDF]
Economic rather than political forces appear to dominate inequality trends in Spain. Inequality evolution fits a Kuznets curve. Wars increased inequality but had non-permanent effects, while progressive taxation had no impact until 1980, at odds with ...
Prados de la Escosura, Leandro
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Schooling Inequality, Crises, and Financial Liberalization in Latin America [PDF]
Latin America is characterized by high and persistent schooling, land, and income inequalities and extreme income concentration. In a highly unequal setting, powerful interests are more likely to dominate politics, pushing for policies that protect ...
Jere R. Behrman +2 more
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Decomposition of bivariate inequality indices by attributes [PDF]
We provide, for the class of relative bidimensional inequality indices, a decomposition of inequality into two univariate Atkinson- Kolm-Sen indices and a third statistic which depends on the joint distribution of resources.multidimensional inequality ...
Ramses H. Abul Naga +1 more
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