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OECD Publishing, 2017
This report examines how the two global mega-trends of population ageing and rising inequalities have been developing and interacting, both within and across generations. Taking a life-course perspective the report shows how inequalities in education, health, employment and earnings compound, resulting in large differences in lifetime earnings…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Trend Analysis, Equal Education, Health
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Lai, Dejian; Huang, Jin; Risser, Jan M.; Kapadia, Asha S. – Social Indicators Research, 2008
In this article, we report statistical properties of two classes of generalized Gini coefficients (G1 and G2). The theoretical results were assessed via Monte Carlo simulations. Further, we used G1 and G2 on life expectancy to measure health inequalities among the provinces of China and the states of the United States. For China, the results…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Statistical Significance, Foreign Countries, Social Indicators