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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254300403321

Autore

Silbersdorff Alexander

Titolo

Analysing Inequalities in Germany : A Structured Additive Distributional Regression Approach / / by Alexander Silbersdorff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-65331-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 98 p. 20 illus., 18 illus. in color.)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in Statistics, , 2191-5458

Disciplina

339.20943

Soggetti

Statistics

Econometrics

Labor economics

Social structure

Equality

Medical economics

Statistics in Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance

Quantitative Economics

Labor Economics

Statistical Theory and Methods

Social Structure

Health Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Introduction.- Inequality and Earnings Distributions -- Estimating and Assessing Distributional Regression -- The Distributional Perspective and Labour Markets -- Applications of SADR in Economics -- Conclusion -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book seeks new perspectives on the growing inequalities that our societies face, putting forward Structured Additive Distributional Regression as a means of statistical analysis that circumvents the common problem of analytical reduction to simple point estimators. This new approach allows the observed discrepancy between the



individuals’ realities and the abstract representation of those realities to be explicitly taken into consideration using the arithmetic mean alone. In turn, the method is applied to the question of economic inequality in Germany.