Gender contribution to income inequality

Frédéric Chantreuil and Isabelle Lebon

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 133, issue C, 27-30

Abstract: This note suggests a new way of determining the contribution of gender to wage inequality as part of the framework based on the Shapley approach. The proposed methodology is illustrated using French data over the period 1970–2003.

Keywords: Shapley value; Inequality decomposition; Gender (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C71 D63 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.05.009

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