This paper tests whether economic inequality is related to suicide mortality. Using an unbalanced panel of 40 countries … rates. Our results indicate that there is a statistically insignificant positive effect of inequality on the incidence of …

This paper studies the changes in inequality and poverty in the period 1999-2005 in Bolivia through the analysis of the … labour supply and occupational choices for each member of the household. We decomposed the observed change in inequality into … distribution of error terms of estimated earn-ings functions (error term effect); and iv) a residual change in inequality not cap …

scenario without the gas boom. This means that the natural gas boom not only causes an increase in inequality but also an …

This paper documents the magnitude, pattern, and evolution of lifetime earnings inequality in Germany. Based on a large …. Earnings data for thirty-one cohorts reveals striking evidence of a secular rise of intra-generational inequality in lifetime … earnings: West-German men born in the early 1960s are likely to experience about 80 % more lifetime inequality than their …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

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

, redistribution is from rich to poor. Increasing inequality increases redistribution. However, under different assumptions about the … economic environment, redistribution may not be simply rich to poor, and inequality need not increase redistribution. Several …