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Analysing Inequalities in Germany

A Structured Additive Distributional Regression Approach

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Alexander Silbersdorff

    1. University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

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  • Explores the use of Structured Additive Distributional Regression to the analysis of economic inequality
  • Introduces both Structured Additive Distributional Regression and inequality analysis
  • Offers new lines of reasoning for a critical reflection on conventional economic theory
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Statistics (BRIEFSSTATIST)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Alexander Silbersdorff
    Pages 1-4

  3. Inequality and Earnings Distributions

    • Alexander Silbersdorff
    Pages 5-20

  4. Estimating and Assessing Distributional Regression

    • Alexander Silbersdorff
    Pages 21-50

  5. The Distributional Perspective and Labour Markets

    • Alexander Silbersdorff
    Pages 51-66

  6. Applications of SADR in Economics

    • Alexander Silbersdorff
    Pages 67-90

  7. Conclusion

    • Alexander Silbersdorff
    Pages 91-95

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 97-98
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About this book

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.



Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Alexander Silbersdorff

About the author

Alexander Silbersdorff is a research associate at the Department of Statistics, University of Göttingen, Germany, where he predominantly works on the development and application of regression techniques to economic contexts. Previously, he served at the Department of Economic History at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, where he investigated the development of historical income structures.

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