英文摘要 |
Gauged by the Gini index of poverty gap ratios, child inequality in Taiwan declines since the late 1980s, reaches its lowest level in 1993, and then rises afterwards (Lee and Wang, 2008). Facing the temporal trends, the current study performs the regression-based Shapley value decomposition to explore the influences of demographic factors, market income, and government net transfer on temporal changes in child inequality.The results show that the market income and government net transfer contribute approvingly to the changes in child poverty, whereas demographic factors are the force countering the inequality trends. Furthermore market income is the dominant force shaping the upward inequality trend over the period from 1988 to 1993. On the other hand, government net transfer is the governing factor forming the downward trend over the 1993 to 2005 period. |