This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the .re-centred influence function. method to decompose …; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially after 2000. …

This paper establishes the principles which should govern the welfare and inequality analysis of heterogeneous income …. However, inequality and welfare comparisons will usually be well defined only if equivalent incomes are obtained using … constant scale factors; and researchers will need to distinguish clearly between inequality of nominal incomes and inequality …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …

income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income idfferences among … certain population subgroups with apparent policy implications. The degree to which overall inequality is attributable to … inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by …

responses suggest that important axioms which serve to differentiate polarisation from inequality - e.g. increased …

This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico … entire rise in inequality at the bottom of the distribution. Our result challenges the widespread perception that trade … induced shocks are the single most important factor behind the recent rise in earnings inequality in several less developed …