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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - 2003
inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262721
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Estimation of Generalized Entropy and Atkinson Inequality Indices from Complex Survey Data
Biewen, Martin; Jenkins, Stephen P. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763467
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Equality of opportunity and the distribution of long-run income in Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Roemer, John E. - 2011
what extent is existing income inequality due to circumstances, as opposed to 'effort'? Our results suggest that several … circumstances, importantly both parental income and own IQ, are important for long-run income inequality, but that variations in … individual effort account for the most part of that inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274702
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Accounting for Income Distribution Trends : A Density Function Decomposition Approach
Jenkins, Stephen P.; van Kerm, Philippe - 2004
are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276944
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Equality of Opportunity and the Distribution of Long-Run Income in Sweden
Björklund, Anders; Jäntti, Markus; Roemer, John E. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
what extent is existing income inequality due to circumstances, as opposed to 'effort'? Our results suggest that several … circumstances, importantly both parental income and own IQ, are important for long-run income inequality, but that variations in … individual effort account for the most part of that inequality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836680
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Accounting for Income Distribution Trends: A Density Function Decomposition Approach
Jenkins, Stephen P.; Van Kerm, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762087
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Matching as a tool to decompose wage gaps
Ñopo, Hugo - 2004
In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides useful insights about the distribution of the unexplained gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261756
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New century, old disparities: Gender and ethnic gaps in Latin America
Ñopo, Hugo; Atal, Juan Pablo; Winder, Natalia - 2010
This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272647
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Understanding rising income inequality in Germany
Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - 2010
We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe's most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272658
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The persistent gender earnings gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - 2010
This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006, corresponding to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276061