has traditionally been a male domain, higher income from this activity might increase gender disparities. In addition …, gender-related inefficiency in household production might undermine the positive impact of improved incentives. Using data …

unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income …-up process of the Argentine economy nor could it be expected to be a big loser. So, the huge amount of unemployment experienced … wage inequality widened relatively more between unskilled and skilled workers. The reasons for the persistence of …

We use a controlled experiment to analyze gender differences in risk preferences and stereotypes about risk preferences … matrilineal Teop in Papua New Guinea. We find no gender differences in actual risk preferences, but evidence for culture …

shape of the distribution and derived measures of inequality, poverty, and mobility. Using employment histories of German …

This paper examines the long-run effect of foreign aid on income inequality for 21 recipient countries using panel … cointegration techniques to control for omitted variable and endogeneity bias. We find that aid exerts an inequality increasing …

-led engagement in non-agricultural activities would be inequality-decreasing through increasing the incomes of the poorer parts of … the population and would reduce poverty. Opportunity-led diversification, by contrast, would increase inequality and have … opportunity-led diversification. Yet, the poverty and inequality implications of the differently motivated diversification …

Inequality, bi-polarization and polarization are related but distinct concepts aiming at analysing the income … distribution. This paper first recalls the main differences between these three notions of inequality, bipolarization and … on inequality, bipolarization and polarization is analyzed via what is known as the Shapley de-composition and the …

. Various forms of poverty, inequality, polarization and income mobility structures are considered and much of the conventional …