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Lifetime Earnings and Inequality *
Author(s) -
CREEDY JOHN
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
economic record
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.365
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1475-4932
pISSN - 0013-0249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4932.1990.tb02527.x
Subject(s) - inequality , earnings , economics , period (music) , demographic economics , econometrics , economic inequality , accounting , mathematics , mathematical analysis , physics , acoustics
It is argued that for many purposes the measurement of inequality should be based on income measured over a longer period than a single year. However, samples of individual earnings over a long period are extremely rare, and there are no data on complete lifetime earnings. This survey examines the wide variety of attempts that have been made to estimate inequality using a longer accounting period Emphasis is placed on the problems of extending the accounting period, rather than the properties of particular statistical measures of inequality.