Assessing inequality
By: Lingxin Hao, Daniel Q. Naiman.
Contributors: Naiman, Daniel Q.
Series: Quantitative applications in the social sciences -- 166
Publisher: SAGE; SAGE Publications, Inc
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781412926294
Subjects: Equality; Social sciences -- Statistical methods; Social indicators; Social accounting
Description: "This monograpg reviews a set of widely used summary inequality measures, and the lesser known relative distribution method provides the basic rationale behind each measure and discusses their interconnections. It also introduces model-based decomposition of inequality over time using quantile regression. This approach enables researchers to estimate two different contributions to changes in inequality between two time points."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.