
# GiniDecompLY

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The goal of GiniDecompLY is to use the approach of Lerman and Yitzhaki (1985) to decompose the Gini Index by income sources.

The package provides a set of functions that quantify the effect of each income source on inequalities.

## Installation

You can install the released version of GiniDecompLY from GitHub with:

``` r
devtools::install_github("A-A-Mbarek/GiniDecompLY")
```



## Reference

Yitzhaki S., Lerman R. (1985) Income Inequality Effects by Income Source: A New Approach and Applications to the United States. *The Review of Economics and Statistics , Feb., 1985, Vol. 67, No. 1 (Feb., 1985),
pp. 151-156*

