Wage Distributions and the Accounting Period: An Assessment of the Shorrocks Effect

Carsten Schröder

A chapter in Economic Well-Being and Inequality: Papers from the Fifth ECINEQ Meeting, 2014, vol. 22, pp 421-447 from Emerald Group Publishing Limited

Abstract: When individual or household incomes are collected for administrative or scientific surveys, the accounting period is sometimes a month, sometimes a quarter, and sometimes a year. The accounting period likely affects the shape of the income distribution and the level of measured inequality. The present study systematically explores the sensitivity of inter-temporal and inter-regional inequality comparisons to the length of the accounting period.

Keywords: Inequality; volatility; wage distribution; accounting period; Shorrocks effect; D3; D31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1108/S1049-258520140000022014

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