LORENZ DECOMPOSITION AND INTERDISTRIBUTIONAL LORENZ COMPARISONS

John A. Bishop, K.Victor Chow and Lester A. Zeager

A chapter in Studies on Economic Well-Being: Essays in the Honor of John P. Formby, 2004, pp 159-177 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: We use recently developed methods to perform decompositions of the Lorenz curve in the United States by race, region, and marital status. The decomposed Lorenz ordinates are used to construct interdistributional Lorenz curves (ILCs), which allow us to identify an economic advantage by one subgroup over another or changes in economic advantage over time. We propose asymptotically distribution-free estimators for the ILCs and apply these estimators to data from the Current Population Survey for 1977 and 1997. As one might expect, there are economic advantages by race, region, and marital status, even in 1997. Economic advantage is greatest for marital status and smallest for region in both years. We find significant convergence (i.e. a smaller economic advantage) over time by race and region, though not by marital status.

Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1016/S1049-2585(04)12006-1

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