Analysing inequalities in Germany : a structured additive distributional regression approach

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Introduction (Alexander Silbersdorff)....Pages 1-4 Inequality and Earnings Distributions (Alexander Silbersdorff)....Pages 5-20 Estimating and Assessing Distributional Regression (Alexander Silbersdorff)....Pages 21-50 The Distributional Perspective and Labour Markets (Alexander Silbersdorff)....Pages 51-66 Applications of SADR in Economics (Alexander Silbersdorff)....Pages 67-90 Conclusion (Alexander Silbersdorff)....Pages 91-95 Back Matter ....Pages 97-98