Income inequality around the world

Front Cover -- Income Inequality around the World -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Editorial Advisory Board -- Preface -- A Comparison of Major World Inequality Data Sets: LIS, OECD, EU-SILC, WDI, and EHII -- The State of World Inequality Data -- Previous Assessments of Cross-Country Inequality Databases -- Criteria of Comparison -- Coverage -- Conceptual Consistency -- Pairwise Comparisons -- EHII-LIS -- EHII-OECD -- EHII-EU-SILC -- EHII-WDI -- Summary of Comparisons -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Data Sets -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Decomposing Changes in Male Wage Distribution in Brazil -- Introduction -- Review of Decomposition Methods -- Oaxaca-Blinder Decomposition -- Recentered Influence Function (RIF) Decomposition -- Data and Descriptive Analysis -- Male Wage Distribution between 1995 and 2012 -- Changes in Workers' Characteristics between 1995 and 2012 -- Decomposition Results -- Change in Wage Structure -- Decomposition of Increase in Average Wage -- Decomposition of Changes across the Wage Distribution -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Changes in Welfare with a Heterogeneous Workforce: The Case of Peru -- Introduction -- Empirical Methodology -- Income Identity -- Returns to Education -- Decomposition Method -- Data Characteristics -- Distributional Changes of Household Income Sources -- Decomposition Results -- Summary and Final Remarks -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Why Is Income Inequality so High in Spain? -- Introduction -- Data and Variables -- Data -- Households' Characteristics -- Inequality in Spain -- General Trend -- Trends in Earnings Inequality -- Inequality and Income Sources: The Labor Market and the Tax-Benefit System -- Inequality among Active and Inactive Households -- The Contribution of Income Sources to Inequality.