Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality: An application to Mozambique

Carlos Gradín ()

No wp-2018-60, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: In this paper, I quantify the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality. This is defined as the sum of the contributions of its members, with these contributions computed as the impact on inequality of a small increase in the population mass at each point of the distribution (using the Recentered Influence Function). The decomposition is shown to verify various attractive properties. I also discuss alternative approaches used in the literature of factor inequality decompositions.

Keywords: Inequality; Decomposition; Recentered influence function; Shapley; Marginal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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