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- Title
Explaining the Equalising Effect of Panel-Income Changes.
- Authors
Herault, Nicolas
- Abstract
Panel-income changes tend to be equalising but existing approaches provide little insight on the nature of this equalising process. I present a new decomposition framework showing explicitly how the equalising effect of panel-income changes depends on the respective size and distribution of panel-income gains and losses. One of the new insights gained from the application to US data for the 1970/2009 period is that most of the equalising effect occurs through income gains rather than income losses even in times of recession.
- Subjects
UNITED States; INCOME inequality; RECESSIONS; SOCIAL services; TAXATION; DATA analysis
- Publication
B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 3, p1599
- ISSN
2194-6108
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/bejeap-2016-0025