increase. Changes in the composition of the workforce explain less than 25% of the rise in wage inequality. However …

Mexico and its effect on inequality and on polarization, and this during the period of 2002-2012. What distinguishes this …-tax income inequality. Based on our estimates, we find a significant increase in the progressivity of the fiscal system over time …, despite the high persistent levels of polarization and inequality in the country. Finally, we find that imposing the common …

This paper explores the link between polarization and inequality and proposes some analytical methods to decompose the … even if inequality has increased sharply during the last two decades, the pure polarization component was remained constant …

Income variablity reduces social welfare if individuals are risk averse, and it is likely to increase inequality if … poorer households are more vulnerable to shocks. Using a simple method to estimate risk-adjusted measures of inequality and … inequality than on welfare. This is because apart from its impact on inequality, risk reduces the certainty equivalent income of …

multidimensional poverty within and between sub-groups of population, and to determine the dimensions that tend to increase inequality … in poverty. The goal of this article is double. Firstly, we present the combined methodology to study the inequality in …

This paper develops criteria for a new concept of restricted inequality dominance and show how they relate to criteria … for comparing relative poverty. The results warn against the use of some popular indices of inequality.\ They do, however … poverty and restricted inequality. We also illustrate graphically how the new criteria of restricted inequality dominance …

source on inequality in total income. This note extends the methodology to take into account income variability. …

and inequality. We show how, when the range of possible poverty lines is unbounded above, a robust ranking of absolute … as a robust ranking of inequality for any order of stochastic dominance. This interpretation is also valid when the … maximum poverty line is bounded and for certain orders of stochastic dominance, so long as social welfare and inequality …