عنوان

Inequality in the United States 1946-2015

شماره

TLpq2407334065

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Inequality in the United States 1946-2015

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Schwendel, John Albert

نام ساير پديدآوران

Mohtadi, Hamid

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2020

نام خاص و کميت اثر

123

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

امتياز متن

2020

متن يادداشت

This dissertation consists of two essays which are concerned with the measurement and description of Income Inequality. Chapter 1 studies the measurement of inequality when data is presented in binned form. While various methods have been proposed for this purpose, I reveal an issue which has not yet been addressed in the literature. I demonstrate that differences in mean earnings can cause differences in the measures of inequality, even if underlying income shares remain constant. The consequence of this issue is that the usage of many of the available methods will create estimates of inequality not suitable for descriptive purposes and especially problematic for regression analysis. In this chapter I describe the nature of binned data, the methods available for estimation of inequality from this data, and a scaling issue detrimental to many estimation techniques. I then perform a series of simulations to demonstrate when certain methodologies perform better than others. I also establish if there are qualities of a specific dataset that would make a given method more appropriate in certain situations.

موضوع مستند نشده

Economics

موضوع مستند نشده

Income

موضوع مستند نشده

Inequality

موضوع مستند نشده

U.S. distribution of income

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Mohtadi, Hamid

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Schwendel, John Albert

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y