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Samling Errors and Cross-Country Comparisons of Income Inequality

The growing interest in cross-national comparisons of income inequality is primarily a result of the establishment of the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) database and the wide range of studies on income inequality based on LIS data. These studies suffer, however, from a major weakness since sampling errors neither are reported nor taken into account when nations are ranked according to estimates of the Gini coefficient or some alternative measure of inequality. This paper discusses the impact of accounting for sampling error when making comparisons of income inequality across nations.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Discussion Papers ; No. 252

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Hypothesis Testing: General
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Thema
Income inequiality
the Gini coefficient
sampling errors

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Aaberge, Rolf
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Statistics Norway, Research Department
(wo)
Oslo
(wann)
1999

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Aaberge, Rolf
  • Statistics Norway, Research Department

Entstanden

  • 1999

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