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The Contribution of Income Components to Income Inequality in South Africa. A Decomposable Gini Analysis

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Leibbrandt, M.V.
Woolard, C.D.
Woolard, I.D.

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much new work has been devoted to deriving and extending decomposable inequality and poverty measures which bridge the gap between description and analysis by throwing light on the processes undergirding inquality and poverty. For example, an application that has obvious policy relevance in the South Africa milieu is the use of decomposition techniques to partition inequality into within-race group and between-race group components. This paper pushes such a programme by using a decomposition technique based on the Gini coefficient to discern the relative importance of the major income components in determining overall income inequality.

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Paper provided by World Bank - Living Standards Measurement in its series Papers with number 125a.

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Date of creation: 1996
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Keywords: ECONOMIC CONDITIONS STATISTICS INCOME

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C42 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Survey Methods
I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty

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