The decompositions proposed in this paper are applied to the net disposable income of the 8156 italian households supplied by Bank of Italy (2016) where the households are partitioned in four subpopulations according to the number of family members and the total income is the sum of four sources.
keywords
Gini Index, ‘‘Two-step’’ Approach, Decomposition by Subpopulations, Decomposition by
Sources, Joint Decomposition by Subpopulations and Sources.
Authors biography
michele.zenga@unimib.it; igor.valli@gmail.com