Is There Any Relationship Between the Number of COVID-19 Tests by Country with the Income Inequality of Countries? A Comparison with Income Inequality Metrics [PDF]
Turkish Thoracic Journal, 2022 Coronavirus diseases 2019 test numbers vary from country to country. The present study aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between the number of coronavirus diseases 2019 tests by country with the income inequality of countries.The association between the number of coronavirus diseases 2019 tests and income inequality metrics was ...
Çıtak, Necati, Pekçolaklar, Atilla
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REVIEW OF INEQUALITY METRICS WITH APPLICATION IN INCOME INEQUALITY IN LOUISIANA [PDF]
Journal of Information Systems and Operation Management, 2008 Economic data sets usually are, by their nature, very large and therefore researchers naturally want to analyze the distribution of the data set and make statistical inference about various parameters of interest, such as means, medians, variances, etc. To perform such tasks several incomes metrics or indices are generally used.
Mihaela Paun
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Inequality Comparisons in a Multi-Period Framework: The Role of Alternative Welfare Metrics [PDF]
, 2011 This paper considers the use of alternative welfare metrics in evaluations of income inequality in a multi-period context. Using Norwegian longitudinal income data, it is found, as in many studies, that inequality is lower when each individual’s annual ...
Creedy, John +2 more
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Well-Being, Inequality and Time: The Time-Slice Problem and its Policy Implications [PDF]
, 2007 Should equality be viewed from a lifetime or sublifetime perspective? In measuring the inequality of income, for example, should we measure the inequality of lifetime income or of annual income? In characterizing a tax as progressive or regressive,
Adler, Matthew D.
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Impact of natural disasters on income inequality in Sri Lanka [PDF]
, 2018 We explore the relationship between natural disasters and income inequality in Sri Lanka as the first study of this nature for the country. The analysis uses a unique panel data set constructed for the purpose of this paper.
Abdullah +30 more
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Risk Equity: A New Proposal [PDF]
, 2007 What does distributive justice require of risk regulators? Various executive orders enjoin health and safety regulators to take account of “distributive impacts,” “equity,” or “environmental justice,” and many scholars endorse these requirements.
Adler, Matthew D.
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Food Insecurity and Conflict Events in Africa [PDF]
, 2018 The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between food insecurity and conflict events short of war in Africa, taking account of a host of mediating factors, including the degree of inequality, the level of development, democratic quality ...
Badiuzzaman, M. +2 more
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Life expectancy inequalities in the elderly by socioeconomic status. Evidence from Italy [PDF]
, 2018 Background: life expectancy considerably increased in most developed countries during the twentieth century. However, the increase in longevity is neither uniform nor random across individuals belonging to various socioeconomic groups. From an economic
Lallo, Carlo, Raitano, Michele
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A Comprehensive Analysis on the Healthcare Systems in Latin America [PDF]
, 2019 This comprehensive report summarizes and analyzes the current state of healthcare in Latin America, specifically in the countries of Mexico, Brazil, the Northern Triangle (El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras), the Andean Region (Ecuador, Peru, and ...
Calderon, Melinda +5 more
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Employing the Gini coefficient to measure participation inequality in treatment-focused Digital Health Social Networks [PDF]
, 2016 Digital Health Social Networks (DHSNs) are common; however, there are few metrics that can be used to identify participation inequality. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the Gini coefficient, an economic measure of statistical ...
AL Graham +46 more
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