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47 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17716
On a Transformation of the Gini Coefficient into a Well-Behaved Social Welfare Function
Oded Stark
published online in: Kyklos, 31 January 2025.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17716
On a Transformation of the Gini Coefficient into a Well-Behaved Social Welfare Function
Oded Stark
published online in: Kyklos, 31 January 2025.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17458
How Business Income Measures Affect Income Inequality and the Tax Burden
Rolf Aaberge, Jorgen Heibo Modalsli, Marco Francesconi, Ola L. Vestad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17002
The Merger of Populations as a Revision of Comparison Space: Repercussions for Social Stress and Income Inequality
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski
published in: Economics Letters, 2024, 237, 111585
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16856
A Note on Sen's Representation of the Gini Coefficient: Revision and Repercussions
Oded Stark
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22, 1061–1067
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16856
A Note on Sen's Representation of the Gini Coefficient: Revision and Repercussions
Oded Stark
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2024, 22, 1061–1067
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16264
Covid-19 and Income Inequality in OECD Countries: A Methodological Comment
Oded Stark
published in: European Journal of Health Economics, 2023, 24, 1235–1237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16130
On a Tendency in Health Economics to Dwell on Income Inequality and Underestimate Social Stress
Oded Stark
published in: Economics & Human Biology, 2023, 49, 101232
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15837
Evolution of Inequality in Nigeria: A Tale of Falling Inequality, Rising Poverty and Regional Heterogeneity
John Chiwuzulum Odozi, Ruth Uwaifo Oyelere
published in: Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2023, 6 (4), 297-309.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14761
A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski
published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74 (4), 552 - 566
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14761
A Social-Psychological Reconstruction of Amartya Sen's Measures of Inequality and Social Welfare
Oded Stark, Wiktor Budzinski
published in: Kyklos, 2021, 74 (4), 552 - 566
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14463
Inequality of Opportunity in Household Income, China 2002-2018
Xiuna Yang, Björn Anders Gustafsson, Terry Sicular
published in: China Economic Review, 2021, 69, 101684
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12910
On the Precarious Link between the Gini Coefficient and the Incentive to Migrate
Oded Stark, Lukasz Byra, Grzegorz Kosiorowski
published in: Economics Letters, 2020, 187, 108880
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12734
Reevaluating Distributional Consequences of the Transition to Market Economy in Poland: New Results from Combined Household Survey and Tax Return Data
Michał Brzeziński, Michal Myck, Mateusz Najsztub
revised version published as 'Sharing the gains of transition: evaluating changes in income inequality and redistribution in Poland using combined survey and tax return data' in: European Journal of Political Economy, 2022, 73, 102121
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12048
Regional Migration and Wage Inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union
Esther Mirjam Girsberger, Romuald Meango, Hillel Rapoport
published in: Journal of Comparative Economics, 2020, 48 (2), 385-404
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12015
Income Inequality and the Size of Government: A Causal Analysis
Martin Guzi, Martin Kahanec
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11884
A Different Perspective on the Evolution of UK Income Inequality
Anthony B. Atkinson, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2020, 66 (2), 253-266
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10573
An Integrated Approach for Top-Corrected Ginis
Charlotte Bartels, Maria Metzing
published as 'An integrated approach for a top-corrected income distribution' in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2019, 17 (2), 125-143
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10226
Suffrage, Labour Markets and Coalitions in Colonial Virginia
Elena Nikolova, Milena Nikolova
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 49, 108 - 122
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10125
(In)Equality and (In)Justice
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Civitas – Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016, 16 (2), 189-217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9902
Wealth Inequality in Sweden: What Can We Learn from Capitalized Income Tax Data?
Jacob Lundberg, Daniel Waldenström
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2018, 64 (3), 517 - 541
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9210
Income Inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador: Different Reasons
María Aristizábal-Ramírez, Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Michael Jetter
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9190
Modelling the Joint Distribution of Income and Wealth
Markus Jäntti, Eva Sierminska, Philippe Van Kerm
published in: Research on Economic Inequality, 2015, 23, 301-327
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8501
World Income Inequality Databases: An Assessment of WIID and SWIID
Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13 (4), 629 - 671
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8500
Long Term Trends in Fair and Unfair Inequality in the United States
Andrew Hussey, Michael Jetter
published in: Applied Economics, 2016, 49(12): 1147-1163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6910
Unequal Inequalities: Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
Denvil Duncan, Klara Sabirianova Peter
published in: International Tax and Public Finance, 2016, 23 (4), 762 - 783
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5486
The Shape of the Income Distribution and Economic Growth: Evidence from Swedish Labor Market Regions
Dan-Olof Rooth, Anders Stenberg
published in: Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 2012, 59 (2), 196-223
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5146
Inequality of Educational Opportunity in India: Changes over Time and across States
Niaz Asadullah, Gaston Yalonetzky
published in: World Development, 2012, 40 (6), 1151–1163
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4769
Robust Inequality Comparisons
Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 353-371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4769
Robust Inequality Comparisons
Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2011, 9 (3), 353-371
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4699
On the Measurement of Long-Term Income Inequality and Income Mobility
Rolf Aaberge, Magne Mogstad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3852
Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves
Rolf Aaberge
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2009, 33 (2), 235-259
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3852
Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves
Rolf Aaberge
published in: Social Choice and Welfare, 2009, 33 (2), 235-259
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3850
A New Model of Wage Determination and Wage Inequality
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Rationality and Society, 2009, 21 (1), 113-168
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3560
Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality
Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published as 'How Skilled Immigration May Improve Economic Equality' in: IZA Journal of Migration, 2014, 3:2.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3450
International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
Martin Kahanec, Klaus F. Zimmermann
substantially revised version published in: Oxford Handbook on Economic Inequality, Oxford University Press, Oxford et al., 2009, 455 - 490
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3236
Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Guillermina Jasso, Eva M. Meyersson Milgrom
published in: Acta Sociologica, 2008, 51 (2), 123-143
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2839
Using the P90/P10 Index to Measure US Inequality Trends with Current Population Survey Data: A View from Inside the Census Bureau Vaults
Richard V. Burkhauser, Shuaizhang Feng, Stephen P. Jenkins
published in: Review of Income and Wealth, 2009, 55 (1), 166–185
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2749
Two Types of Inequality: Inequality Between Persons and Inequality Between Subgroups
Guillermina Jasso, Samuel Kotz
published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2008, 37 (1), 31-74
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2598
A New Continuous Distribution and Two New Families of Distributions Based on the Exponential
Guillermina Jasso, Samuel Kotz
published in: Statistica Neerlandica, 2007, 61(3), 305-328
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2592
Studying Justice: Measurement, Estimation, and Analysis of the Actual Reward and the Just Reward
Guillermina Jasso
published in: Kjell Törnblom and Riel Vermunt (eds.), Distributive and Procedural Justice: Research and Social Applications. London, UK: Ashgate, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1891
Regional Income Stratification in Unified Germany Using a Gini Decomposition Approach
Joachim R. Frick, Jan Goebel
published in: Regional Studies, 2008, 42(4), 555-577
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1263
Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Almas Heshmati
revised version published in: A. Heshmati (ed.), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2007
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1221
A Review of Decomposition of Income Inequality
Almas Heshmati
revised version published in: A. Heshmati (Ed), Global Trends in Income Inequality, Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, 2007, 27-48
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1049
Using Analysis of Gini (ANoGi) for Detecting Whether Two Sub-Samples Represent the Same Universe: The SOEP Experience
Joachim R. Frick, Jan Goebel, Edna Schechtman, Gert G. Wagner, Shlomo Yitzhaki
published in: Sociological Methods and Research, 2006, 34 (4), 427-468
IZA Discussion Paper No. 253
Living Standards and Economic Vulnerability in Turkey between 1987 and 1994
Ruslan Yemtsov
IZA Discussion Paper No. 252
Inequality and Income Distribution in Georgia
Ruslan Yemtsov
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