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Measuring Income Inequality Across Countries and Over Time: The Standardized World Income Inequality Database

open access: yesSocial Science Quarterly, 2019
Objective: This article documents wide-ranging revisions to the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID), which seeks to maximize the comparability of income inequality estimates for the broadest possible coverage of countries and years ...
F. Solt
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Inequality and Top Incomes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
This chapter comprises three main parts. The first part is about data sources, the definitions of income, and the methodologies used to estimate top income shares. Both the standard sources and methods used by the traditional top income studies are described.
Bartels, Charlotte, Waldenström, Daniel
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Area-level income inequality and oral health among Australian adults-A population-based multilevel study. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2018
A lack of evidence exists on the association between area-level income inequality and oral health within Australia. This study examined associations between area-level income inequality and oral health outcomes (inadequate dentition (
Ankur Singh   +3 more
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Measuring Inequality Change in an Economy with Income Growth [PDF]

open access: yes, 1987
This paper analyzes how to measure changes in inequality in an economy with income growth. The discussion distinguishes three stylized kinds of economic growth: high income sector enrichment, low income sector enrichment, high income sector enlargement,
Fields, Gary S
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A New Data Set Measuring Income Inequality

open access: yes, 1996
This article presents a new data set on inequality in the distribution of income. The authors explain the criteria they applied in selecting data on Gini coefficients and on individual quintile groups' income shares.
Klaus Deininger, L. Squire
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Education, Growth, and Income Inequality [PDF]

open access: yesReview of Economics and Statistics, 2002
Estimates of the e¤ect of education on GDP (the social return to education)have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the private return. We present a simple explanation that combines two ideas: imperfect substitution between worker types and endogenous skill biased technological progress.
Teulings, C., van Rens, T.
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The Impact of Financial Inclusion on Economic Growth, Poverty, Income Inequality, and Financial Stability in Asia

open access: yesJournal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business, 2020
As an effort to achieve sustainable development and increase people’s welfare, financial inclusion has become the policy agenda of many countries. Therefore, the effect of financial inclusion on economic growth, poverty, income inequality, and financial ...
Kusuma Ratnawati
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Innovation and Top Income Inequality [PDF]

open access: yesThe Review of Economic Studies, 2015
AbstractIn this article, we use cross-state panel and cross-U.S. commuting-zone data to look at the relationship between innovation, top income inequality and social mobility. We find positive correlations between measures of innovation and top income inequality. We also show that the correlations between innovation and broad measures of inequality are
Philippe Aghion   +8 more
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Income inequality in the context of economic cycles

open access: yesBusiness: Theory and Practice, 2012
Theoretical and practical issues of income inequality are analysed in the article. The concept of economic inequality as well as literature analysis along with principal causes and measures of income inequality are presented in the article.
Rasa Zabarauskaitė, Inga Blažienė
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Credit, Income and Inequality [PDF]

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Analyzing unique data on loan applications by individuals who are majority owners of small firms, we detail how a bank’s credit decisions affect their future income. We use the bank’s cutoff rule, which is based on the applicants’ credit scores, as the discontinuous locus providing exogenous variation in the decision to grant loans.
Del¯es, Manthos D.   +2 more
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