inequality indices when estimated from complex survey data. It turns out that this method also greatly simplifies the …

what extent is existing income inequality due to circumstances, as opposed to 'effort'? Our results suggest that several … circumstances, importantly both parental income and own IQ, are important for long-run income inequality, but that variations in … individual effort account for the most part of that inequality. …

are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … are not dependent on the choice of a specific summary index. Nonetheless, since inequality and poverty indices can be …

developments in Lemieux’s (2002) decomposition method to advance our understanding of the determinants of wage inequality in … introduction of markets and new institutions affected men’s and women’s wage inequality between 1986 and 2003. We find that wage … inequality rises substantially for both men and women. Applying the Lemieux method, we show that market forces drive the increase …

We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require … used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy first expands rapidly with a large decline in inequality, plateaus … when inequality remains relatively stable, and then decreases rapidly with a large increase in inequality. This novel …

inequality? Data from the United States Census Bureau suggests there has been a rise in assortative mating. Additionally …, assortative mating affects household income inequality. In particular, if matching in 2005 between husbands and wives had been ….34, so that income inequality would be smaller. Thus, assortative mating is important for income inequality. The high level …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality – the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …