Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality
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- Vladimir Hlasny & Lidia Ceriani & Paolo Verme, 2022. "Bottom Incomes and the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality," Review of Income and Wealth, International Association for Research in Income and Wealth, vol. 68(4), pages 970-1006, December.
- Hlasny, Vladimir & Ceriani, Lidia & Verme, Paolo, 2020. "Bottom incomes and the measurement of poverty and inequality," GLO Discussion Paper Series 519, Global Labor Organization (GLO).
- Vladimir Hlasny & Lidia Ceriani & Paolo Verme, 2020. "Bottom Incomes and the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality," Working Papers 1393, Economic Research Forum, revised 20 Apr 2020.
- Vladimir Hlasny & Lidia Ceriani & Paolo Verme, 2020. "Bottom Incomes and the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality," LIS Working papers 792, LIS Cross-National Data Center in Luxembourg.
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Keywords
Bottom incomes; income inequality; poverty; self-employment; Mediterranean; Middle East; Pareto; random forest.;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
- N35 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Asia including Middle East
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