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Growth with equity : income inequality in Vietnam, 2002-14
Benjamin, Dwayne; Brandt, Loren; McCaig, Brian - 2016
We use the 2002 through 2014 Vietnam Household Living Standards Surveys to construct comparable measures of household income and estimates of income inequality over this high-growth period. We focus on two questions: How have benefits from growth been distributed; and do changes in the structure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594144
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Is education the panacea for economic deprivation of Muslims? : Evidence from wage earners in India, 1987 - 2005
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar (contributor);  … - 2007
has been undertaken in the context of conflict-prone multi-religious societies like the one in India. We address this … lacuna in the literature by examining the differences in the average (log) earnings of Hindu and Muslim wage earners in India …, during the 1987-2005 period. Our results indicate that education differences between Hindu and Muslim wage earners …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656882
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Decomposition analysis of earnings inequality in rural India : 2004-2012
Khanna, Shantanu; Goel, Deepti; Morissette, René - 2016
We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings … inequality increasing effect, chiefly attributable to increased education levels, inequality declined because workers at lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011480816
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Inequality and growth in rural China : does higher inequality impede growth?
Benjamin, Dwayne (contributor); Brandt, Loren (contributor);  … - 2006
We explore the relationship between the level of village inequality in 1986, and the subsequent growth of household incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial inequality is negatively related to subsequent household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003474137
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Decomposition of the changes in household disposable income distribution in China
Gong, Chen; Sologon, Denisa M.; Nimeh, Zina; … - 2023
Studies have shown that the previously growing inequality in China has stabilized and even declined since 2008 (Kanbur et al., 2021), nevertheless, the drivers of the latest trans-formation in income inequality remain to be unraveled. We address this research gap by examining the changes in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540717
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International migration and the distribution of income in New Zealand metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas
Alimi, Omoniyi B.; Maré, David Christopher; Poot, Jacques - 2018
Since the 1980s, income inequality in New Zealand has been a growing concern - particularly in metropolitan areas. At the same time, the encouragement of permanent and temporary immigration has led to the foreign-born accounting for a growing share of the population; this is disproportionally so...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949538
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Decomposing US income inequality à la Shapley : race matters, but gender too
Chantreuil, Frédéric; Fourrey, Kévin; Lebon, Isabelle; … - 2020
This paper is an application of a new Shapley income decomposition methodology, in which we isolate two subjective factors in income differences - race and gender - that contribute to income inequality within the population of blacks and whites in the United States over the period 2005-2017. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169318
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The impact of household capital income on income inequality : a factor decomposition analysis for Great Britain, Germany and the USA
Fräßdorf, Anna (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyses the contribution of capital income to income inequality in a cross-national comparison. Using micro-data from the Cross-National Equivalent File (CNEF) for three prominent panel studies, namely the BHPS for Great Britain, the SOEP for West Germany, and the PSID for the USA, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716531
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The distributional effects of tax-benefit policies under new labour : a Shapley decomposition
Bargain, Olivier - 2009
Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it possible to disentangle and quantify the relative effect of tax-benefit policy changes, compared to all other effects including shifts in the distribution of market income....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879331
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Analysing the effects of tax benefit reforms on income distribution : a decomposition approach
Bargain, Olivier (contributor); Callan, Tim (contributor) - 2007
To assess the impact of tax-benefit policy changes on income distribution over time, we suggest a methodology based on counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the tax-benefit structure (rules, rates, etc.),...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561638