Change and convergence of income distributions in the European Union during 2007-2014

Zsombor Cseres-Gergely and Virmantas Kvedaras ()
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Virmantas Kvedaras: European Commission, https://joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/index_en

No 2019-13, JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance from Joint Research Centre, European Commission

Abstract: Mainstream monitoring of income dynamics and inequality is based on summary measures that can miss important phenomena prevalent in income distributions. Relying on quantile functions and the adapted statistical framework suggested by Szekely and Rizzo (2004), we characterize the change and convergence of net equivalized income distributions among European Union countries. We exploit the scale-independence property of proper inequality metrics to evaluate not only the total but also the inequality-affecting (shape-influenced) convergence of distributions.

Keywords: convergence; European Union; income distribution; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 D63 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 48 pages
Date: 2019-07
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Published by Publications office of the European Union, 2019

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