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On the Measurement of Inequality
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In this paper, the problem of comparing two frequency distributions f(u) of an attribute y which for convenience I shall refer to as income is defined as a risk in the theory of decision-making under uncertainty.About:
This article is published in Journal of Economic Theory.The article was published on 1970-09-01. It has received 5002 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Income inequality metrics & Income distribution.read more
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Comparing Tax and Transfer Systems: Poverty, Inequality and Target Efficiency
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare between alternative tax and transfer systems using target efficiency measures where the objective is the alleviation of poverty, and find that means-testing dominates if the headcount poverty measure is used, otherwise the linear tax dominates.
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European Schemes of Social Assistance: An Empirical Analysis of Set-Ups and Distributive Impacts
Katja Hölsch,Margit Kraus +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance are analyzed and two sets of classifications are introduced that classify the systems according to regulatory arrangements and degree of centralisation, respectively.
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A systematic overview of transportation equity in terms of accessibility, traffic emissions, and safety outcomes: From conventional to emerging technologies
TL;DR: In this paper, a comprehensive review of the existing literature for assessing the equity of a few important system outcomes (accessibility, traffic emissions, and safety) is presented, and the existing challenges of analyzing equity for emerging transportation technologies are identified.
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The current state and dynamics of regional disparities in Romania
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight the dynamics and current state of regional disparities in Romania, discussing both inter-regional disparities -between the eight development regions, corresponding to the NUTS II level- and intra-region disparities between the counties (corresponding to the NCI level) included in each region.
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Tourism seasonality worldwide
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the best World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) data, over the period 2008-2013 and for the main destinations, as a measure of tourism seasonality.
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Risk Aversion in the Small and in the Large
TL;DR: In this article, a measure of risk aversion in the small, the risk premium or insurance premium for an arbitrary risk, and a natural concept of decreasing risk aversion are discussed and related to one another.
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Aspects of the theory of risk-bearing
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The Measurement of the Inequality of Incomes
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The Efficiency Analysis of Choices Involving Risk
Giora Hanoch,Haim Levy +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the first step of the decision-making process of an individual decision maker among alternative risky ventures is presented, in terms of a single dimension such as money, both for the utility functions and for the probability distributions.