Demographic Transition, Family Structure, and Income Inequality
利用台湾数据，通过分解基尼系数和比较洛伦兹曲线，研究人口年龄结构变化如何影响家庭收入不平等，发现年龄构成因素显著影响不平等指标，对经历快速人口转变的发展中国家有启示。
We treat each age-specific income-earning member of the family as an income "source, " and use the source-specific Gini decomposition approach as well as the Lorenz comparison approach to study the impact of the changing population age structure on family income inequality. Empirical analysis using Taiwanese data shows that the pattern of Gini coefficients is significantly affected by the above-mentioned age composition factor. The general implication is that for many developing countries which have recently gone through rapid demographic transition, family income inequality indexed may implicitly embody information as to the age-specific composition of family members, which is irrelevant to the general notion of inequality. © 1997 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology