TY - JOUR
T1 - Earnings inequality in Singapore
AU - Bhanoji Rao, V. V.
AU - Banerjee, D. S.
AU - Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Based on the data on earnings distributions from the national labour force surveys of 1974-98, trends in income inequality are studied. Of particular note are the findings from the Paglin Gini and Theil decompositions. The former show that behind an invariant overall Gini ratio lies a declining inter-age disparity and growing P-Gini. From the latter, it is found that inter-age and inter-educational disparities have respectively contributed some 12 per cent and 34 per cent to overall inequality. It is found that inter-occupational inequality, as measured by the Theil index, almost doubled in the period. This is in sharp contrast to trends in inter-educational activity, thus illustrating that the education-occupation linkage is not clear-cut.
AB - Based on the data on earnings distributions from the national labour force surveys of 1974-98, trends in income inequality are studied. Of particular note are the findings from the Paglin Gini and Theil decompositions. The former show that behind an invariant overall Gini ratio lies a declining inter-age disparity and growing P-Gini. From the latter, it is found that inter-age and inter-educational disparities have respectively contributed some 12 per cent and 34 per cent to overall inequality. It is found that inter-occupational inequality, as measured by the Theil index, almost doubled in the period. This is in sharp contrast to trends in inter-educational activity, thus illustrating that the education-occupation linkage is not clear-cut.
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U2 - 10.1080/1354786032000074749
DO - 10.1080/1354786032000074749
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0037933298
VL - 8
SP - 210
EP - 228
JO - Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
JF - Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy
SN - 1354-7860
IS - 2
ER -