Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/95455 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
LIS Working Paper Series No. 512
Publisher: 
Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition methods can be reconciled with regression methodology used in the recent literature. We also highlight some pitfalls that arise from uncritical use of the regression approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches using an analysis of the changing contributions to inequality in the United States and Finland.
Subjects: 
inequality
decomposition
JEL: 
D63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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