A Research Note on International Comparisons of Inequality of Income
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10529588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott Menard (0000-0002-8757-4247, University of Memphis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1986 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 778-778 |
| Publication date | 1986-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Forces (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-7732 • E-ISSN: 1534-7605 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2578824 |
| OpenAlex | W4245081313 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Gini-based measures of income inequality for different countries vary on three dimensions: extent of coverage (national, urban, etc.), type of population (households, workers, etc.), and time period. Analyses of national income inequality have treated measures which vary on these dimensions as though they were identical. In most cases, this is not justified, based on reliability coefficients among these measures. While national household income distribution and national distribution of income among income recipients are virtually identical, other measures differ considerably from these two measures and from each other. In addition, for less developed countries, a major change appears to have occurred circa 1955–60 which makes the use of data from these two times in the same analysis with data from later times inadvisable (except to examine changes over time). In general, the different measures of income inequality are unreliable relative to one another, and they should not be mixed in the same analysis as though they were equivalent
Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics · Econometrics · Economic inequality · Economics · Gini coefficient · Income distribution · Income inequality metrics · Inequality · Measures of national income and output · Population · Sociology · Demography · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics
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| Citations per year | 0.21 |
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| Citation span | 1993 - 2022 (30) |
| Highly cited | No |