characterizing high productivity range and low productivity range, we show that inequality of low productivity range is larger than … that of high productivity range. In addition, it is shown that the change of inequality in low productivity has strong …

This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … correlation between the two variables is rather low in international perspective. Urban inequality as measured by the Gini …

) and income inequality in the United States. Using panel cointegration techniques that allow for cross …-sectional heterogeneity, cross-sectional dependence, and endogenous regressors, we find that the short-run effects of FDI on income inequality … negative effect on income inequality in the United States. This result for the United States as a whole does not imply that FDI …

wage inequality widened relatively more between unskilled and skilled workers. The reasons for the persistence of … unemployment are discussed, the impact of the increasing unemployment and growing inequality in wage distribution on income …

absolute approach to inequality measurement when defining pro-poor growth. With a relative approach to pro-poor growth it is … assumed that inequality does not to vary when all incomes are multiplied by a constant whereas, with an absolute approach to … pro-poor growth, inequality is supposed not to vary when an equal sum is added to all incomes. The empirical illustration …

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

This paper argues that previous cross-country (panel) studies on the relationship between income inequality and health …-country heterogeneity in the impact of inequality on health. Using panel cointegration techniques that are robust to omitted variables …, endogenous regressors, and slope heterogeneity, we find that income inequality has, on average, a small, but robust and …

-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 …