Gini Decomposition by Income Sources

Estimation of the effect of each income source on income inequalities based on the decomposition of Lerman and Yitzhaki (1985) .

GiniDecompLY

The goal of GiniDecompLY is to use the approach of Lerman and Yitzhaki (1985) to decompose the Gini Index by income sources.

The package provides a set of functions that quantify the effect of each income source on inequalities.

Installation

You can install the released version of GiniDecompLY from GitHub with:

devtools::install_github("A-A-Mbarek/GiniDecompLY")

Reference

Yitzhaki S., Lerman R. (1985) Income Inequality Effects by Income Source: A New Approach and Applications to the United States. The Review of Economics and Statistics , Feb., 1985, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Feb., 1985), pp. 151-156