Evolving contributions of various income sources to U.S. income inequality across age groups
- This paper studies the age-group-specific evolutions of inequality of total income among highly and less educated females and males at ages 26–85 from 2005 to 2018 in the United States. In particular, it presents time series of Gini coefficients and associated decompositions by different income components to highlight the contributions of different income sources to inequality in different age groups over time. The results indicate, among others, that especially an increasing number of individuals with zero incomes contributed to the observed increases of inequality among less educated females and males aged 26–45 and 26–55 after the Great Recession, respectively.
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| Author: | Christian ScharrerORCiDGND |
|---|---|
| Frontdoor URL | https://opus.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/opus4/119883 |
| ISSN: | 1874-7884OPAC |
| ISSN: | 1874-7876OPAC |
| Parent Title (English): | Journal of Population Ageing |
| Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2025 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universität Augsburg |
| Release Date: | 2025/03/10 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12062-025-09481-0 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät |
| Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre / Lehrstuhl für Finanzwissenschaft | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Latest Publications (not yet published in print): | Aktuelle Publikationen (noch nicht gedruckt erschienen) |
| Licence (German): |  CC-BY 4.0: Creative Commons: Namensnennung (mit Print on Demand) |
