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Growth, Employment, and Income Distribution in Argentina, 1990-2010
(SAGE Publications, 2015-12)
In spite of the fact that Argentina has experienced a process of high sustained growth that created four million jobs, income distribution did not register substantial changes. The aim of this paper is to analyze the ...
Basic Income and Time Use Democratization
(De Gruyter, 2016-06)
Time has become a valuable asset within capitalism. "Time is money" is a well known and usually shared principle. As in regard to many other type of assets, the distribution of time is pretty unfair, as well as it is the ...
An statistical analysis of stratification and inequity in the income distribution
(Springer Heidelberg, 2011-03-16)
The analysis of the USA 2001 income distribution shows that it can be described by at least two main components, which obey the generalized Tsallis statistics with different values of the q parameter. Theoretical calculations ...
Top incomes, wealth and inheritance: special issue in homage to Tony Atkinson
(Springer, 2018-06)
In the second of the three issues that the Journal of Economic Inequality is publishing in honour of Sir Anthony Barnes “Tony” Atkinson, we turn to what has become one of the most dynamic areas of research in recent years, ...
Biased perceptions of income distribution and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from a survey experiment
(Elsevier Science, 2013-02)
Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines how individuals form ...
Biased Perceptions of Income Distribution and Preferences for Redistribution: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
(Institute for the Study of Labor, 2011-05)
Individual perceptions of income distribution play a vital role in political economy and public finance models, yet there is little evidence regarding their origins or accuracy. This study examines how individuals form ...
Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts: Methods and Global Inequality Estimates from WID.world
(Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques, 2020-10)
This paper briefly presents the methodology of Distributional National Accounts (DINA), which distributes total national income and total wealth among all individual residents. With DINA, we can estimate inequality statistics ...
Global inequality dynamics: New findings from WID.world
(American Economic Association, 2017-05)
This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world), with particular emphasis on the contrast between the trends observed in the United States, China, France, ...
Human Capital and the Quality of Education in a Poverty Trap Model
(Routledge, 2011-03-17)
This paper presents a model of a poverty trap that is caused by an unequal initial income and human capital distribution and differences in the quality of education between children from more and less advantaged social ...
Self-reported income data: are people telling the truth?
(Emerald, 2020-12-07)
Purpose: This paper aims to detect anomalous data in income reports of Argentina, including personal income – from a sample of households – and statements of public officials. Design/methodology/approach: A widely known ...