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Income distribution and inequality measurement

Research Project
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01.04.2007
 - 31.12.2025

The project studies methodological aspects of inequality measurement and income distribution. Topics include: Inequality measurement in heterogeneous populations Modelling income distributions beyond the national level Classical inequality measurement and top incomes Fitting income distributions for different data structures

Collaborations & Cooperations

2025 - Participation or Organization of Collaborations on an international level
Prendergast, Luke, Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Research cooperation
2025 - Participation or Organization of Collaborations on an international level
Staudte, Robert, Professor, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Research cooperation

Publications

Gallusser, David and Krapf, Matthias (2022) ‘Joint Income-Wealth Inequality: Evidence from Lucerne Tax Data’, Social Indicators Research, 163(1), pp. 251–295. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-022-02887-9.

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Spasova, Tsvetana (2019) ‘Regional Income Distribution in the European Union: A Parametric Approach’, WWZ Working Papers. WWZ (WWZ Working Papers, 18). Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/s1049-258520190000027002.

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Spasova, Tsvetana (2019) ‘Regional Income Distribution in the European Union: A Parametric Approach’, Research on Economic Inequality, 27, pp. 1–18. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1108/s1049-258520190000027002.

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Spasova, Tsvetana (2016) Three Essays on Income Distribution and Inequality Measurement. . Translated by Kleiber Christian; Schmidheiny Kurt. Dissertation.

Kleiber, Christian (2008) ‘The Lorenz curve in economics and econometrics’, in Betti, Gianni; Lemmi, Achille (ed.) Advances on income inequality and concentration measures. London: Routledge (Routledge frontiers of political economy), p. S. 225–242.

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Kleiber, Christian (2008) ‘A guide to the Dagum distributions’, in Chotikapanich, D (ed.) Modelling income distributions and Lorenz Curves: Essays in Memory of Camilo Dagum. Berlin - New York: Springer (Modelling income distributions and Lorenz Curves: Essays in Memory of Camilo Dagum), p. S. 97–119. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72796-7_6.

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Members (4)

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Christian Kleiber

Principal Investigator
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David Robin Gallusser

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Sinan Acemoglu

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Tsvetana Spasova

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