【Brownbag】Inequality and Earnings Dynamics in Taiwan
2024/05/24
研討會日期 : 2024-05-24
時間 : 12:10
主講人 : Professor Hsuan-Li Su (蘇軒立)
地點 : Conference Room B110
演講者簡介 : Professor Hsuan-Li Su received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2015. He is an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, National Taiwan University. His research interest focuses on distributional macroeconomics, which includes the interaction between the financial markets and macroeconomy and aggregate behavior induced by micro-level interactions, such as networks and heterogeneous agents.
演講摘要 : This paper examines earnings income inequality and dynamics in Taiwan using the administrative income tax data. The measures and methodology is harmonized with the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) Project, allowing for cross-country comparisons.
Analyzing the distribution and mobility of earnings over 2004-2020, we document the patterns and characteristics of earnings in the Taiwanese labor market. Earnings inequality steadily declined during this period, mainly due to the upsurge of the bottom 10% earnings group. The skewness and kurtosis of earnings gradually increased. We document heterogeneity in idiosyncratic earnings changes across gender and age groups. Our analysis of earnings mobility over a 10-year period indicates a common patterns of life-cycle earnings changes.
