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THE INEQUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT AND SELF‐EMPLOYMENT INCOMES: A DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS FOR THE U.K.
Author(s) -
Parker Simon C.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1999.tb00332.x
Subject(s) - inequality , economics , earnings , income inequality metrics , index (typography) , economic inequality , labour economics , demographic economics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , accounting , world wide web , computer science
U.K. employment and self‐employment income inequality are analysed over 1979–94/95. Robust inequality decompositions reveal occupation to be a relatively important and hitherto neglected determinant of earnings inequality. In contrast, self‐employment income inequality is harder to explain, although occupation is also the most important single factor in the mid‐1990s. The paper also provides a novel implementation of a decomposition of changes in Kolm's inequality index.