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Decompositions of Inequality and Poverty by Income Source

Published:2024-07-01 Issue:3 Volume:24 Page:1017-1027
ISSN:1935-1682
Container-title:The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy
language:en
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Author:

Urban Ivica¹^ORCID,Bezeredi Slavko¹,Leventi Chrysa²

Affiliation:

1. 162078 Institute of Public Finance , Zagreb , Croatia

2. European Commission – Joint Research Centre , Seville , Spain

Abstract

Abstract There is ample empirical literature on the contributions of different income sources to total income inequality. In contrast, studies estimating the contributions of income sources to income poverty are scarce. This paper presents a new decomposition of the Foster–Greer–Thorbecke poverty index, based on a marginal approach previously employed to decompose income inequality. We apply these marginal decompositions to data for 15 EU countries and classify six income sources according to their impact on inequality and poverty. Our results indicate that there are significant differences in the contributions of income sources to poverty compared to their respective contributions to inequality.

Funder

Hrvatska Zaklada za Znanost

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/bejeap-2024-0004/pdf

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