Measuring Social Tension from Income Class Segregation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19417838 |
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| Authors | Yoonseok Lee (0000-0002-8379-0700, Syracuse University), Donggyun Shin (0000-0001-5001-373X, Kyung Hee University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 457-471 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Business and Economic Statistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0735-0015 • E-ISSN: 1537-2707 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07350015.2015.1051624 |
| OpenAlex | W2186332552 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
We develop an index that effectively measures the level of social tension generated by income class segregation. We adopt the basic concepts of between-group difference (or alienation) and within-group similarity (or identification) from the income [bi]polarization literature; but we allow for asymmetric degrees of between-group antagonism in the alienation function, and construct a more effective identification function using both the relative degree of within-group clustering and the group size. To facilitate statistical inference, we derive the asymptotic distribution of the proposed measure using results from U-statistics. As the new measure is general enough to include existing income polarization indices as well as the Gini index as special cases, the asymptotic result can be readily applied to these popular indices. Evidence from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics data suggests that, while the level of social tension shows an upward trend over the sample period of 1981 to 2005, government’s taxes and transfers have been effective in reducing the level of social tension significantly
Alienation · Econometrics · Economic inequality · Economics · Income distribution · Inequality · Inference · Mathematical analysis · Panel data · Statistics · Computer Science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Law · Mathematics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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