Evaluating Distributional Differences in Income Inequality:

Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World

Tim FutingLiao¹ 

关键词: inequality;    Theil index;    measurement;    gender inequality;    decomposition;    glass ceiling;    glass floor;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2378023115627462

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Income and wage inequality between gender and other social groups is commonly evaluated by the difference in average income or the decomposition of the total amount of inequality into between-group and within-group components using an inequality measure such as the Theil index. Either approach ignores the dispersional difference between social groups, often manifested in glass-ceiling and glass-floor effects. The author introduces a refined Theil decomposition that offers two ways of capturing such between-group distributional differences. An analysis of income data from 10 European countries illustrates the usefulness of the proposed evaluation and decomposition methods.

【 授权许可】

CC BY