Understanding New Zealand's Changing Income Distribution, 1983–1998

A Semi‐parametric Analysis

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9728275
AutoresDean Hyslop (0000-0002-5338-8016), Dean R Hyslop, David C Maré (0000-0003-4716-2755)
Ano2005
Volume72
Fascículo287
Páginas469-495
Data de publicação2005-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEconomica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.0013-0427.2005.00426.x
OpenAlexW2241037720
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas6

This paper analyses income distribution changes in New Zealand between 1983 and 1998. We use a semi‐parametric kernel density approach and a range of inequality summary measures to assess the distributional effects of changes in five sets of factors: household structure, National Superannuation (old age pension), socio‐demographic attributes, employment outcomes, and ‘economic returns’ to such attributes and employment outcomes. Changes in household structure and attributes are the main factors contributing to the rise in inequality. Employment changes and changing returns had a more modest impact. The results are qualitatively robust to a variety of equivalization, income, and weighting measures

Demographic economics · Distribution (mathematics) · Econometrics · Economic inequality · Economics · Geography · Household income · Income distribution · Inequality · Labour economics · Weighting · demographic modeling and climate adaptation · Economic Growth and Productivity · Mathematics · New Zealand Economic and Social Studies