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First estimates of inequality benchmark incomes for a range of countries
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It is known that virtually all inequality measures imply the existence of a ‘benchmark income’, above which adding incremental income increases inequality, and below which it decreases inequality. Benchmark incomes can be interpreted as social reference levels that identify the richest individual for whom it would be just to subsidize their income. Despite the intuitive appeal of benchmark incomes, there have been hardly any empirical applications to date. This paper provides the first estima...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Oxford Biomedical Research Centre
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PLOS ONE Journal website
- Volume:
- 16
- Issue:
- 3
- Article number:
- e0248178
- Publication date:
- 2021-03-17
- Acceptance date:
- 2021-02-19
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1932-6203
- Pmid:
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33730030
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1168658
- Local pid:
- pubs:1168658
- Deposit date:
- 2021-04-15
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- Copyright holder:
- LSJ Roope
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021 Laurence S. J. Roope. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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