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 …

The aim of this paper is to provide fresh empirical evidence of the mechanisms through which wage inequality affects … inequality. Her results are robust within the different specifications and different definitions of the reference group. …

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 …