Comparing income distributions : statics and dynamics / John Creedy (Wellington School of Business and Government, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Creedy, John, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--Research.

Income distribution.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 pages)

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"Comparing Income Distributions brings together John Creedy's recent original research and analyses of income distribution. The book is concerned with both static, or cross-sectional, comparisons, and dynamic aspects of income mobility. The author presents new methods of depicting and measuring income mobility and poverty persistence. Income mobility is explored in terms of individuals' relative income changes and their positional changes within the distribution. The first half of the book covers a range of technical aspects of inequality measurement, including less well-known properties of inequality indices, and the decomposition of inequality changes into component contributions. The second half explores various aspects of the graphical display and measurement of income mobility. While the focus of the book is on methods, illustrative examples are provided using New Zealand data. Graduate students, public sector economists, and researchers interested in income distribution will welcome this important work"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. Alternative Distributions and Metrics

3. Interpreting Inequality Measures

4. Inequality-Preserving Changes

5. Decomposing Inequality Changes

6. Inequality Over a Long Period

7. Regression Models of Mobility

8. Illustrating Differential Growth

9. Summary Measures of Equalising Mobility

10. Mobility as Positional Change

11. Poverty Persistence

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781035307333 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.