Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both an aversion to inequality in permanent … inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits significantly the … effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that we use. Globally …

incomes. This paper assesses the net welfare benefit of mobility by assuming both a social aversion to inequality in permanent … and on the inequality of income across individuals. Using panel data, we find that Canada’s tax system limits … income equalizing effect of taxes can reach up to 23 percent of mean income at the higher values of inequality aversion that …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

This paper examines the relationship among poverty, economic growth, and inequality by decomposing poverty changes at …

to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) targets for maternal and child health. This study shows inequality in …

reducing poverty and perhaps inequality, as well as better fertility management--particularly among the poor--aimed at the …