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Distributional Change: Assessing the Contribution of Household Income Sources
2022
Abstract: We develop a decomposition of changes in household income distributions by factor components to quantify the contribution of changes over time in the association between sources of income and changes in their (marginal) distributions. The two components are broken down to isolate the contribution of specific income sources. An application to the change in the distribution of household incomes in Luxembourg between 2004 and 2013 reveals contrasted results: increased association between spouse earnings, public transfers and taxes depressed the income share of poor households while changes in marginal distributions increased incomes in the upper half of the distribution.
| Type: | Journal article |
| Theme(s): | Income inequality: measures, trends and drivers |
| JEL Classification: | C14, D31, D33 |
| 10.1111/obes.12462 | |
| RePEc:bla:obuest:v:84:y:2022:i:1:p:158-184 |
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Kyzyma, I., Fusco, A. & Van Kerm, P. (2022), 'Distributional Change: Assessing the Contribution of Household Income Sources', Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 84(1), 158-184.
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Author = {Kyzyma, Iryna and Fusco, Alessio and Van Kerm, Philippe},
Title = {Distributional Change: {A}ssessing the Contribution of Household Income Sources},
Journal = {Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics},
Volume = {84},
Number = {1},
Pages = {158-184},
Year = {2022}
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Kyzyma, I., Fusco, A. & Van Kerm, P. (2019), 'Distributional Change: Assessing the Contribution of Household Income Sources', LISER Working Paper 2019-13, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, Esch/Alzette, Luxembourg.
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Trends in the distribution of income: The role of changes in family income composition. 2018 Conference of the International Association for Applied Econometrics (IAAE), Montreal, 2018.
Trends in the distribution of household incomes: the role of changes in the dependence of income sources. Seminar, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, 2018.
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