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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Inequality measures"”.
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Income Inequality Measures and Statistical Properties of Weighted Burr-type and Related Distributions
… of several tail conditional expectations and inequality measures for Dagum-type models are derived. In addition, a new class of weighted Burr-III (WBIII) distribution is presented. The statistical properties of this distribution including hazard and reverse hazard functions, moments, …
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Three essays on poverty and inequality
… contains three essays that analyses income inequality and poverty. Chapter 1 examines the impact of education on income inequality in 18 Latin American countries between 2000 and 2010. This period has raised interest in the academic community because inequality has fallen across the region, …
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Statistical Properties of the Mc-Dagum and Related Distributions
… and mean residual life function are obtained. Inequality measures, entropy and Fisher information are presented. Maximum likelihood estimates of the model parameters are given.</p>
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The Dagum-Weibull and Related Weighted Distributions
… distributions are constructed and studied. Inequality measures, entropy, and Fisher information are derived. Estimates of model parameters are obtained and some applications as well as numerical examples are given.</p>
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Wage Inequality: A Gender and Race Analysis of South African Wages between 1994 and 2015
This paper examines wage inequality among the eight race-gender cohorts in South Africa between 1994 and 2015 by using the 1994 October Household Survey and four waves of the 2015 Quarterly Labour Force Survey. Wage inequality is estimated using the Lorenz Curve, Gini Coefficient, General Entropy …
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Essays in Nonparametric Econometrics
… of income mobility that applies the permanent inequality measures of mobility to simulated data that can be constructed from estimates of the short-term dynamics of income. The method is thus able to track changes in mobility itself while remaining within the general welfare-based framework. …
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Dimensions of Earnings Inequality in Australia
… For Australia, two of these have been increasing inequality of earnings and the growth in alternative forms of employment arrangements. For the US and a number of other countries, the prevailing explanation for the increase in inequality centres on the notion of skill-biased technological change …
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Essays in Modern Macroeconomics
… Impact of Large-Scale Asset Purchases on Wealth Inequality examines the relationship between monetary policy and household wealth inequality through changes in the size and composition of the central bank’s balance sheet. I focus on the impact on household wealth inequality through the financial …