its decomposition, socio-economic inequalities of tobacco consumption grouped by gender were estimated. The concentration … smokers was 0.039 (men 0.033; women 0.038). The majority of the inequality could be explained by educational attainment, age …

This paper examines the impact on inequality and poverty of the economic crisis in four European countries, namely … 2010, was one of great economic turmoil, yet it is unclear whether changes in inequality and poverty rates over this time … decreasing inequality and relative poverty in the UK, France and especially in Ireland, a country where rising unemployment would …

The Great Recession and the widespread adoption of fiscal austerity policies have heightened concern about inequality …., 2017), the overall change in income inequality is decomposed into parts attributable to the change in market income … inequality, changes in discretionary tax-benefit policy and automatic stabilisation effects. We implement this approach using the …

and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background …While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP). Ex-ante IOp is defined as the contribution of circumstances to the inequality in net …

inequality or relatively high population density. Households whose head has relatively low educational attainment are also …

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 … implications. -- Earnings gap ; education ; decomposition ; religion …

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 … from 2010 to 2016. We apply the distributional decomposition method proposed by Bourguignon et al. (2008) and Sologon et al …

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 of the economy map into changes in inequality? We explore dimensions … in which inequality may vary, notably urban versus rural, and by ethnic status. We also decompose inequality by income …

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 show that the purely racial contribution to income inequality as …