Disposable income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient and using the Family Budget Survey data, increased very little, and by a similar amount, from 1989 to 1993 in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. This surprising result is examined with an analysis of changes in the channels of redistribution and a Gini decomposition. We find that the sizeable increase in overall inequality due to c...

Degree distribution is a fundamental property of networks. While mean degree provides a standard measure of scale, there are several commonly used shape measures. Widespread use of a single shape measure would enable comparisons between networks and facilitate investigations about the relationship between degree distribution properties and other network features. This paper describes five candi...

We decompose changes in the Gini coefficient to investigate whether the Conditional Cash Tranfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brasil, Mexico and Chile. We conclude that CCT programs helped reducing inequality between the mid-1990s and the mid-2000s. The share of total income represented by the CCTs is very small, less than 1%. But as their tar...

in this paper a general view of the gini decomposition is presented. in order to decompose the gini coefficient into within group inequality, between group inequality and transvariation inequality of the iranian urban and rural areas, the 2006 and 2010  micro-data and dagum (1997) method is used. the results indicate that about 48 percent of the inequality in the country as a whole has been due...

The Occupy Wall Street movement is a reflection of the American people's sentiments against a growth model which over-rewards the top 1 per cent and 2 under-rewards the remaining 99 per cent. The inequality in Singapore, as measured by the Gini coefficient, is even greater than that in America. Too great a gap between rich and poor undermines solidarity and social cohesion. It poses a threat to...

The Laeken indicators are a set of indicators for measuring poverty and social cohesion in Europe. However, some of these indicators are highly influenced by outliers in the upper tail of the income distribution. This paper investigates the use of robust Pareto tail modeling to reduce the influence of outlying observations. In a simulation study, different methods are evaluated with respect to ...

performed. MPI and Gini coefficient were obtained from National Statistics Department ́s (DANE) databases. The Maternal Mortality Rate and Neonatal Mortality Rate were estimated and standardized by age and sex respectively. The Attributable Fraction (AF) was estimated as the inequity indicator for these two variables estimating the excess of risk by geographical exposure. We estimated the trend ...