Peru has made great progress in reducing poverty and inequality in the past decade alongside high economic growth …. Albeit this progress, the incidence of poverty and inequality remain high. This paper examines the distributional and poverty … reduces overall inequality by almost 7 Gini points. This reduction is mainly driven by in-kind benefits while the impact of …

poverty. We provide two empirical applications of our measure. First, we analyze the development of inequality in the US from …Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but … inequality do not adequately reflect these normative preferences. In this paper we address this shortcoming by developing a new …

Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary … State contributes directly to a very large share of inequality. Factors associated to work in the public sector - wages and … and, taken as a whole, tends to increase inequality. Redistributive mechanisms that could reverse this inequality, such as …

-sectional inequality and over the lifecycle of an individual (intra-individual redistribution) insuring individuals against income risks in … construct long-term incomes over a 20-year period. Results show that annual, cross-sectional inequality is higher than … inequality in the long-run, but the effect of redistribution is also larger annually than in the long-term. Depending on age the …