Three Essays in Economic Inequality
Author: Andrew Silva
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 198
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Author: Andrew Silva
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 198
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Published: 2020
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gustavo Nicolas Paez Salamanca
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Published: 2019
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Pedro Salas Rojo
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Published: 2022
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis doctoral dissertation is divided in three chapters. All of them deal with aspects related to the measurement of economic inequality, but each one has a distinct topic and puts its focus on a specific standpoint. Inheritances and Wealth Inequality: A Machine Learning Approach. This chapter explores the relationship between received inheritances and the distribution of wealth (financial, non-financial and total) in four developed countries: the United States, Canada, Italy and Spain. We follow the inequality of opportunity (IOp) literature and -considering inheritances as the only circumstance- we show that traditional IOp approaches can lead to non-robust and arbitrary measures of IOp depending on discretionary cut-off choices of a continuous circumstance such as inheritances. Overcoming this limitation, we apply Machine Learning methods to optimize the choice of cut-offs (‘random forest’ algorithm) and we find that IOp explains over 60% of wealth inequality in the US and Spain (using the Gini coefficient), and more than 40% in Italy and Canada. Including parental education as an additional circumstance -available for the US and Italy- we find that inheritances are still the main contributor. Finally, using the S-Gini index with different parameters to weight different parts of the distribution, we find that the effect of inheritances is more prominent at the middle of the wealth distribution, while parental education is more important for the asset-poor...
Author: Aoyu Hou
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Published: 2020
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Published: 2013
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Published: 2010
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Damir Cosic
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Published: 2015
Total Pages: 228
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Published: 2018
Total Pages: 100
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn two linked papers I show the importance of fertility to the wealth distribution and how fertility interacts with intergenerational transfer taxation. In a third paper I empirically explore the impact of recession on occupational sorting, using public school teachers as a relatively acyclical comparison occupation.
Author: Universitat de València. Departament d'Anàlisi Econòmica
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 115
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