background characteristics are controlled for-most notably the income and labour market activity of parents in the years leading …. Parental loss by death is assumed to be exogenous; the experiences of children with a bereaved background offering a benchmark … to assess the endogeneity of parental loss through divorce. Differences between individuals with divorced parents and …

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …

authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the … income in Canada during the 1990s. …

Deux quasi-experiences sont menees pour evaluer l'effet du divorce des parents sur les revenus et le comportement sur … les parents sont divorces et ceux provenant de familles intactes et endeuillees exagerent de beaucoup l'incidence du … passe familial, en particulier le revenu et l'activite sur le marche du travail des parents au cours des annees precedant le …

intergenerational income mobility among Canadian men; and (2) estimate the income disadvantage (in adulthood) of being raised in a low … income household. We find that there is considerable intergenerational income mobility in Canada among middle income earners …, but that the inheritance of economic status is significant at both the very top and very bottom of the income distribution …