Changing income inequality and panel income changes

"When economic growth (or economic decline) takes place, who benefits and who is hurt how much? The more traditional way of answering this question is to compare two or more comparable cross sections and gauge changing income inequality among countries or individuals. A newer way is to utilize...

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Main Authors: Duval Hernández, Robert, Fields, Gary S., Jakubson, George H.
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Bonn 2015
IZA
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19112678124919308509-Changing-income-inequality-and.htm
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author Duval Hernández, Robert
Fields, Gary S.
Jakubson, George H.
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Fields, Gary S.
Jakubson, George H.
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description "When economic growth (or economic decline) takes place, who benefits and who is hurt how much? The more traditional way of answering this question is to compare two or more comparable cross sections and gauge changing income inequality among countries or individuals. A newer way is to utilize data on a panel of countries or a panel of people and assess the pattern of panel income changes. How do these two approaches relate to one another? This paper shows, first, that it is possible to have all four combinations – rising or falling inequality and divergent or convergent panel income changes, and second, under what conditions, for various measures of rising/falling inequality and various measures of divergent/convergent income changes, each of the four possible combinations can arise."
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publishDate 2015
publisher Bonn
IZA
spellingShingle Duval Hernández, Robert
Fields, Gary S.
Jakubson, George H.
economic growth
income distribution
social inequality
Changing income inequality and panel income changes
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title Changing income inequality and panel income changes
topic economic growth
income distribution
social inequality
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19112678124919308509-Changing-income-inequality-and.htm