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.
Author(s): John Creedy
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 286
City: Cheltenham
Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Alternative Distributions and Metrics
Chapter 3 Interpreting Inequality Measures
Chapter 4 Inequality-Preserving Changes
Chapter 5 Decomposing Inequality Changes
Chapter 6 Inequality Over a Long Period
Chapter 7 Regression Models of Mobility
Chapter 8 Illustrating Differential Growth
Chapter 9 Summary Measures of Equalising Mobility
Chapter 10 Mobility as Positional Change
Chapter 11 Poverty Persistence
Bibliography
Index
