scholarly journals Analysis of inequality of gross added value of conventional and organic farms in selected EU countries

2013 ◽  
Vol 61 (7) ◽  
pp. 2883-2891
Author(s):  
Gabriela Trnková ◽  
Zdeňka Malá
Keyword(s):  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Food Markets ◽  
Organic Farms ◽  
Subsidy Policy ◽  
Economic Productivity ◽  
The Gini Coefficient ◽  
Vertical Decomposition ◽  
Conventional Manner ◽  
Agricultural Food

The paper deals with the differentiation of gross added value of farms with a focus on mixed production from twelve selected European Union countries in view of the manner of farming. The objective is to define the effect of an ecological and conventional manner of farming on the differentiation of gross added value and to quantify the level of impact of subsidy policy on the elimination of the said inequality. The fulfillment of the said objective was based upon the quantification of the Gini coefficient, which was quantified for selected indicators on the basis of data from the FADN database for the year 2009. In order to assess the effect of the manner of farming on the differentiation of the analyzed indicators, a horizontal decomposition of the Gini coefficient was performed. On the other hand, a vertical decomposition of the Gini coefficient served to assess the effect of EU subsidy policy on the level of inequality of the indicator of gross added value. The obtained results indicate a lesser inequality of the economic productivity of European agricultural businesses, which is not significantly determined by an ecological or conventional manner of farming, but rather by the local specifics of individual countries and their agricultural-food markets, as well as the applied subsidy policy, which primarily in organic farming decreases the inequality of gross added value to a significant extent and strengthens the competitiveness as well as viability of agricultural businesses.

scholarly journals Why We Should Use the Gini Coefficient to Assess Punctuated Equilibrium Theory

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Constantin Kaplaner ◽  
Yves Steinebach
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Punctuated Equilibrium ◽  
Equilibrium Theory ◽  
Punctuated Equilibrium Theory ◽  
The Gini Coefficient ◽  
Precise Measure

Abstract Punctuated Equilibrium Theory posits that policy-making is generally characterized by long periods of stability that are interrupted by short periods of fundamental policy change. The literature converged on the measure of kurtosis and L-kurtosis to assess these change patterns. In this letter, we critically discuss these measures and propose the Gini coefficient as a (1) comparable, but (2) more intuitive, and (3) more precise measure of “punctuated” change patterns.

The Gini coefficient: Majority voting and social welfare

2014 ◽  
Vol 152 ◽  
pp. 214-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Gabriel Rodríguez ◽  
Rafael Salas
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
Majority Voting ◽  
The Gini Coefficient

Equitable service by a facility: Minimizing the Gini coefficient

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 (12) ◽  
pp. 3240-3246 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tammy Drezner ◽  
Zvi Drezner ◽  
Jeffery Guyse
Keyword(s):  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
The Gini Coefficient

Sufficientarianism and the Measurement of Inequality

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-173
Author(s):  
Rudolf Schuessler
Keyword(s):  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
Oecd Countries ◽  
Income Level ◽  
The Gini Coefficient ◽  
Theories Of Justice ◽  
Measurement Of Inequality

Abstract What impact should sufficientarianism have on the measurement of inequality? Like other theories of justice, sufficientarianism influences how economic inequality is conceived. For the purpose of measurement, its standards of justice can be approximated by income-based thresholds of sufficiency. At which income level could a threshold of having enough be pegged in OECD countries? What would it imply for standard indicators of inequality, such as decile comparisons of cumulated income, income spreads, or the Gini coefficient? This paper suggests some answers to these questions, showing that sufficientarian ideas could make a difference with respect to the measurement of inequality in a society.

scholarly journals A comparative study of the Gini coefficient estimators based on the linearization and U-statistics Methods

2017 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shahryar Mirzaei ◽  
Gholam Reza Mohtashami Borzadaran ◽  
Mohammad Amini
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Simulation Study ◽  
Gini Coefficient ◽  
Gini Index ◽  
Real Data ◽  
Linearization Method ◽  
U Statistics ◽  
The Gini Coefficient

In this paper, we consider two well-known methods for analysis of the Gini index, which are U-statistics and linearization for some incomedistributions. In addition, we evaluate two different methods for some properties of their proposed estimators. Also, we compare two methods with resampling techniques in approximating some properties of the Gini index. A simulation study shows that the linearization method performs 'well' compared to the Gini estimator based on U-statistics. A brief study on real data supports our findings.

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