Income Inequality and Income Mobility
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7077054 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Wout Ultee (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Publication date | 2007-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosi027 |
| OpenAlex | W2396021604 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
Research on income inequality within the social sciences took off as a byproduct of income taxation. Lists were published showing how many tax‐paying units during a tax year had an income of a certain size. The distribution did not look like a bell‐shaped curve, but was skewed at the upper end. The description of the distribution by one parameter started with Vilfredo Pareto, and his results led to the hypothesis that this statistic was more or less the same for all times and places. Later results, using better measures like the Gini‐coefficient, found differences between countries, leading to a hunt for explanations. Due to the efforts of the World Bank and the Luxemburg Income Study, quite comparable income inequality data for various countries are now available, so that hypotheses‐testing is possible
Adjusted gross income · Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics · Econometrics · Economic inequality · Economics · Gini coefficient · Gross income · Income distribution · Income inequality metrics · Income tax · Inequality · Lorenz curve · Pareto principle · Public economics · State income tax · Statistic · Statistics · Tax reform · Economic Theory and Policy · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Mathematics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |