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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Gini coefficient"”.
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Using system dynamics to explore gini coefficient parametrics
… tool highlighted the direct causal influence of Gini coefficient on residential electricity consumption, by using equations as opposed to correlations. Results show that for a GDP growth rate of 2, by year 2035, a Gini coefficient of 0.5 is linked to a 3.14 increase in residential electricity …
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Investigating the potential for utilising a water equity metric to benchmark differential access in Global South cities: a case study of Cape Town
… water sector of the City of Cape Town using the Gini Coefficient and the Palma ratio. Both these metrics were selected to determine how access to water and water consumption were distributed averagely throughout the population with the Gini coefficient, as well as between the most resource rich …
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The effect of remittances on household income inequality in South Africa
… 2012). Studies show that in the past 20 years, Gini coefficients of per capita income have increased from 0.66 in 1993 to 0.70 in 2008. Lerman and Yitzhaki (1985) derived a method to decompose inequality of income by source followed by a derivation of the Gini Coefficient by Stark et al. (1986). …
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Does the Relative Age Effect Exist in Elite Sport? An Analysis of Olympic Competition
… databases. Lorenz curves were constructed and Gini coefficients calculated to detect unexpected distributions of birth months. In addition, linear regression was used to determine a directional distribution. A negative Gini coefficient and a statistically significant negative slope of the birth …
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Income Distribution in Tanzania: An Analysis of Trends
By using the Gini coefficient, the study first measures the degree of household income inequality in Tanzania and demonstrates that inequality rose between 1969 and 1976/7. Second, the study attempts to explain changes in the level of income inequality in Tanzania. It is shown that urban household …
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Foreign direct investment, democracy, and income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean from 1991 to 2017
… between FDI and income inequality measured in Gini Coefficient is magnified in countries with a high level of democracy of LAC during 1991-2017. Furthermore, in the following quintile income share analysis, it is found that the effects for the 5th quintile are opposite to the 3rd and the 4th …
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Investigating Player Salaries and Performance in the National Hockey League
… the 2010-11 season. Salary inequality/equality (Gini coefficient) was used in a regression analysis to determine if it was an effective predictor of team performance (n = 178) (winning percentage). The results indicated that a hierarchical salary structure increased team performance, although the …
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Financial development, economic growth and income inequality: a panel data approach
… increases income inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient, after controlling for country fixed effects. These results are robust to different measures of financial development and control variables. The policy implication is that a wealth tax, as advocated by Piketty (2014) to subsidise …
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Do Perceptions of Inequality Negatively Affect Interpersonal Trust?
… of objective or societal measures such as the Gini coefficient, and the effect of individual assessments of inequality has thus far received much less academic attention. Using data from the Round 5 Afrobarometer survey, I estimate the effect of perceived inequality on interpersonal trust in …
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Impactos territoriais da criação do assentamento rural Dona Helena-Cruz do Espírito Santo/PB.
… of land in the state of Paraiba, reaching the Gini coefficient greater than 0.9 in some municipalities, as an example, Cruz do Espírito Santo. We believe that the rural settlements provide a reorganization of land and it‟s also be able to promote changes in social, economic and political …
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Wage Inequality: A Gender and Race Analysis of South African Wages between 1994 and 2015
… inequality is estimated using the Lorenz Curve, Gini Coefficient, General Entropy class of indices, Atkinson class of measures and Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition techniques. Quantile regressions are also run to identify potential factors that could explain inequality in the country. Inequality …
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Using Supervised Learning Methods to Credit Score Informal Merchants
… history as the only feature, resulting in a Gini coefficient of 0.6143. The study's findings can help Nomanini determine the creditworthiness of merchants more accurately and reduce the risk of lending money to defaulters. This, in turn, can help increase access to working capital to support …
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The effect of company performance and executive remuneration on employee's perceptions of fairness in the South African financial services industry
… between the rich and the poor as measured by the Gini Coefficient, in which South Africa is now ranked the most inequal country in the world. The aim of the present study is to better understand some of the dynamics that influence perceptions of fairness in such scenarios. The present study has …
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Dominance/Suppression Competitive Relationships in Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda L.) Plantations
… L.) plantations were used to examine inequality (Gini coefficient) trends in diameter and the relationship between diameter relative growth rate (r) and initial size. Analysis with two spacing studies shows inequality increases with increasing density. For a given initial density, inequality …
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Explaining changes in post-apartheid income and earnings inequality
… applies different decomposition methods to the Gini coefficient. In the analysis of household income sources, traditional static decompositions are supplemented by applying micro-simulations that allow for a dynamic decomposition of changes in income sources reported in household surveys. The …
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Statistically Evaluating Water Consumption Historically and Across Multiple Users in Virginia
… study explores key aspects of water usage in Virginia via a broad-scale analysis of multiple water users through thirty years of time-series records from the Virginia Water Use Data System. A full spectrum of users is considered, including water used for energy, industrial, agricultural and …
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The structure and evolution of the African air transport network
… A gradual decrease in the average clustering coefficient and degree assortativity coefficient but an increase in the Gini coefficient and largest degree suggest that the network aligns to a growing airline hub-and-spoke structure. During this period, the COVID-19 pandemic occurs and …
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An Historical Analysis of Fiscal Equity in the Commonwealth of Virginia: 2004-2018
… public school funding in the Commonwealth of Virginia from 2004 to 2018. This study analyzed and measured the horizontal and vertical equity funding allocations across each reporting division in the Commonwealth of Virginia from FY2004 to FY2018 in two-year increments reflective of the final year …
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Multi-faceted measurements of job access inequity for transit-based workers
… distribution inequity by mostly relying upon the Gini coefficient, which mainly reveals the overall degree of inequity across the entire population but falls short of unveiling distributive inequity between the rich and the poor. Thus, an alternative measure that can capture the job access …
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Characterization of Sparsity-aware Optimization Paths for Graph Traversal on FPGA
… uses graph metrics such as average degree and Gini coefficient to observe the impact of graph properties on the performance of the proposed optimization strategies.
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