Assessing Inequality

von Daniel Q. Naiman, Lingxin Hao

162 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Providing basic foundations for measuring inequality from the perspective of distributional propertiesThis 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.Key Features

- Clear statistical explanations provide fundamental statistical basis for understanding the new modeling framework- Straightforward empirical examples reinforce statistical knowledge and ready-to-use procedures- Multiple approaches to assessing inequality are introduced by starting with the basic distributional property and providing connections among approaches

This supplementary text is appropriate for any graduate-level, intermediate, or advanced statistics course across the social and behavioral sciences, as well as individual researchers.

• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie Sozialforschung und -statistik
• ISBN: 9781412926294
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 26.05.2010
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Sage Publications, Inc