caa a22 4500 46788952X CHVBK 20180406152744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10888-005-9007-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10888-005-9007-3 Inequality measurement and the time structure of household income in Israel [Elektronische Daten] [Yoel Finkel, Yevgeny Artsev, Shlomo Yitzhaki] The aim of this paper is to empirically evaluate the effect of the length of the accounting period on indices of inequality of household income in Israel. There are three main findings: (1) The analysis of the impact of the accounting period on the Gini index of inequality can be done in a way which is identical to analyzing the effect of the accounting period on the coefficient of variation; (2) changing the accounting period from one to three months decreases, on average, the Gini index of inequality by about 1.7%. Furthermore, the Gini index calculated from a three-month accounting period was 3.9%-4.1% higher than the index based on a 12-month period. The change in the accounting period from 12 months to three months accounts for 27% to 37% of the increase in inequality in the last two decades, depending on the type of income considered. (3) The above relationship is stable over the years but is sensitive to the definition of income. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2005 decomposition nationallicence Gini correlation nationallicence inequality nationallicence time nationallicence Finkel Yoel Central Bureau of Statistics, 66 Kanfei Nesharim, Corner Bachi St., 95464, Jerusalem, Israel aut Artsev Yevgeny Central Bureau of Statistics, 66 Kanfei Nesharim, Corner Bachi St., 95464, Jerusalem, Israel aut Yitzhaki Shlomo Central Bureau of Statistics and Department of Economics, Hebrew University, 91905, Jerusalem, Israel aut The Journal of Economic Inequality Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 4/2(2006-08-01), 153-179 1569-1721 4:2<153 2006 4 10888 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-005-9007-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-005-9007-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Finkel Yoel Central Bureau of Statistics, 66 Kanfei Nesharim, Corner Bachi St., 95464, Jerusalem, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Artsev Yevgeny Central Bureau of Statistics, 66 Kanfei Nesharim, Corner Bachi St., 95464, Jerusalem, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yitzhaki Shlomo Central Bureau of Statistics and Department of Economics, Hebrew University, 91905, Jerusalem, Israel aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic Inequality Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 4/2(2006-08-01), 153-179 1569-1721 4:2<153 2006 4 10888 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer