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The Lorenz Curve: A Proper Framework to Define Satisfactory Measures of Symbol Dominance, Symbol Diversity, and Information Entropy. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel), 2020 Camargo JA, Camargo JA.
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Income Tax Revenue: Some Simple Analytics [PDF]
This paper takes familiar analytical expressoins for total income tax revenue, expressed in terms of summary measures of thee distribution of taxable income, and relates them to distances and slopes in the popular Lorenz curve diagram.
John Creedy
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Poverty alleviation is a critical concern in developing countries. China launched the Targeted Poverty Alleviation (TPA) program and implemented a series of anti‐poverty initiatives, aiming to reduce poverty and enhance the well‐being of rural households.
Shiyu Yan +3 more
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Robust inequality comparisons [PDF]
This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria than first-degree Lorenz dominance. To deal with such
Magne Mogstad, Rolf Aaberge
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Searching together versus searching apart: Evidence from Kaggle1
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary How does the mode of search—independently or jointly—affect collective search, a central component of organizational adaptation and innovation? Using naturally occurring data from a strongly incentivized online competition platform, we find that compared to their counterfactuals that search apart, groups searching together ...
Marco S. Minervini +2 more
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The Lorenz curve in economics and econometrics [PDF]
, 2005 This paper surveys selected applications of the Lorenz curve and related stochastic orders in economics and econometrics, with a bias towards problems in statistical distribution theory. These include characterizations of income distributions in terms of
Kleiber, Christian
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Small Methods, EarlyView.A new vanadium precursor enables metalorganic chemical vapor deposition growth of pure and crystalline VN thin films with tailored orientation. Combined experiments and density functional theory calculations reveal the crucial role of NH3 in controlling decomposition pathways and film characteristics.
Jean‐Pierre Glauber +11 more
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Income Inequalities Between Women And Men In Selected European Countries
Folia Oeconomica StetinensiaIncome inequalities between women and men often constitute an important area of research related to social inequalities. Differences in incomes between genders are frequently analyzed in the context of gender equality, social justice, and economic equity.
Trzcińska Kamila
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Small Methods, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The high thermoelectric performance of Fe2VAl stems from its sharply rising band edges on either side of the band gap, which is highly sensitive to composition. Addressing reproducibility and scale‐up challenges, we have developed a strategy to enhance its p‐type thermoelectric performance by defects and grain boundary engineering through ...
Tarachand +4 more
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Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration
Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.Social media platforms are imbued with politics and values through an interplay of coded architectures, platform policies, economic models, and algorithmic curation, together shaping and shaped by the activities of users. This dynamic set of relations is most evident during moments of disruption, in which platform politics and values come under debate.
Sean Ward +3 more
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