Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy · 2003 · 15 citations · 0 references
Income DistributionSocial StratificationIncome InequalitySocial SciencesRemuneration PracticeEconomic AnalysisTransfer EarningsEconomic InequalitySocial InequalityEconomicsAccountingLabor Market OutcomeTheil DecompositionsPopulation InequalitySociologyBusinessLabor Market ImpactInequalityUnemploymentTheil Index
Based on the data on earnings distributions from the national labour force surveys of 1974-98, trends in income inequality are studied. Of particular note are the findings from the Paglin Gini and Theil decompositions. The former show that behind an invariant overall Gini ratio lies a declining inter-age disparity and growing P-Gini. From the latter, it is found that inter-age and inter-educational disparities have respectively contributed some 12 per cent and 34 per cent to overall inequality. It is found that inter-occupational inequality, as measured by the Theil index, almost doubled in the period. This is in sharp contrast to trends in inter-educational activity, thus illustrating that the education-occupation linkage is not clear-cut.