Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/247207 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Queen’s Economics Department Working Paper No. 1466
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
This paper offers a tool box of disaggregative measures of distributional change, including population shares, income shares, quantile mean incomes and relative mean incomes of different income groups. It highlights median-based measures along with quintiles and deciles. It also offers formulas for the measures' standard errors and a common framework for statistical inference on these measures. Illustrating these tools with Census and LFS microdata, the paper highlights the substantial decline in earnings shares and relative mean earnings levels of middleclass workers in Canada since 1980 and the corresponding dramatic rise in these measures for higher earners in the labour market.
Subjects: 
Income inequality
inequality tool box
statistical inference
JEL: 
C12
C46
D31
D63
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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