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 …

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 documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

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 …

, effort and talents, not to their circumstances at birth. 'Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the … Caribbean' introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin … for quantifying inequality based on circumstances exogenous to individual efforts. These methods are applied to gauge …

between these two objectives. This volume shows how reforms can address the urgent issue of inequality without undermining …