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Immigration Effects On Economic Systems Through Dynamic Inequality Indices

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  • Guglielmo D’Amico
  • Giuseppe Di Biase
  • Raimondo Manca

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In this paper we propose a stochastic model to analyze the time evolution of inequality within an economic system. The classical inequality indices, Herfindahl-Hirschman, Gini and Theil’s entropy, are thereby turned into a dynamic form. We show, by using a simulative approach, how it is possible to study the time evolution of inequality in a closed or open economy. We pay particular attention to immigration effects on the inequality. The model is able to manage different behaviors of the inequality indices and it may help decision makers calibrate the economic policies of inequality containment.

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  • Guglielmo D’Amico & Giuseppe Di Biase & Raimondo Manca, 2011. "Immigration Effects On Economic Systems Through Dynamic Inequality Indices," Global Journal of Business Research, The Institute for Business and Finance Research, vol. 5(5), pages 11-25.
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    Income distribution; Dynamic inequality index; semi-Markov reward processes.;
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    • C63 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Computational Techniques

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