Jenkins, Stephen P. and van Kerm, Philippe (2011) Trends in individual income growth: measurement Methods and British evidence. Public Economics Programme Papers, PEP 08. The London School of Economics and Political Science, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines, London, UK.
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Abstract
Assessments of whose income growth is the greatest and whose is the smallest are typically based on comparisons of income changes for income groups (e.g. rich versus poor) or income values (e.g. quantiles). However, income group and quantile composition changes over time because of income mobility. To summarize patterns of income growth while also tracking the fortunes of the same individuals, a longitudinal perspective is required. For this case, we develop dominance conditions and summary indices for comparisons of distributions of individual income growth, together with associated methods of estimation and inference. Using these methods and data from the British Household Panel Survey, we study individual income growth for periods between 1991 and 2005. We show that income growth was significantly more pro-poor in the early years of the Labour government than in earlier Conservative years.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Technical Report) |
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| Official URL: | http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2011 The Authors |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory |
| Sets: | Departments > Social Policy Research centres and groups > Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) |
| Identification Number: | PEP 08 |
| Funders: | Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) (MiSoC), Fonds National de la Recherche, Luxembourg |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2014 10:32 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/58209/ |
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