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标题：Does Household Worklessness Explain Ireland’s High Working-Age Market Income Inequality?
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作者：Brian Nolan ; Bertrand Maître
期刊名称：Economic and Social Review
印刷版ISSN：0012-9984
出版年度：2021
卷号：52
期号：4
页码：357-374
语种：English
出版社：Economic and Social Research Institute
摘要：Ireland has a particularly high level of inequality in incomes from the market, beforeredistribution by transfers and direct taxes, and also a very high level of household joblessness. Howmuch does the latter serve to explain the former? We assess this by comparing Ireland in depth withfive comparator countries: France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and the UK. Decomposition of the Ginicoefficient by income source shows the dominant role played by income from labour in market incomeinequality in all these countries. Decomposition of Generalised Entropy measures and counterfactualshift-share exercises based on them show that Ireland’s high proportion of working-age households withno earner is indeed an important contributor to its ranking in terms of market income inequality.However, relatively high levels of dispersion in earnings within one-earner and two-earner householdsalso contribute and their drivers need to be better understood.