and spanning 22 years, first, to test hypothesis that there is within-country income convergence. Second, through a … analysis finds evidence of both income and poverty convergence among municipalities. As a cause of these, the results point to … decomposition of the poverty convergence elasticity, the analysis investigates whether this convergence, if it exists, has …

This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995 …-2010, when regional data are available. Using a panel regression framework we find no evidence for beta-convergence. Instead we … find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over time. Robustness checks that use regional real income instead of gross …

In this paper, we study convergence in per capita gross regional products across Russian regions in the period from … model to analyze the regional convergence process in the Russian case. We also take into account possible spatial effects … and do a series of other robustness checks. Our main estimates establish a convergence rate of around 2% per year. While …

This paper discusses data used in publishing statistics on earnings, the distribution of household income and poverty …. This has had consequences for providing official data on wages, income and poverty which we discuss along with other … earnings, household income and poverty, and we present seven of these in the paper. …

poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for …A growing concern on widening income gap between the rich and the poor, the policy mismatch in tackling the relative …

Using panel data from the BHPS and its Understanding Society extension, we study life satisfaction (LS) and income over … from lowest to highest LS, though their average income was always higher. In spite of rapid income growth up to 2008 …/09, the less educated showed no rise in LS, while highly educated LS rose after the crash despite declining real income. In …

Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …, increasing inequality. Significant gains in educational attainment, the demographic transition, and rising female labor force …

of fiscal policy interventions on inequality and poverty. Specifically, we analyze the distributional incidence of direct … on the VAT side and progressive on the personal income tax side. Furthermore, direct transfers make a modest contribution …

to study the changes in the within country distribution of management quality associated with country convergence to the … those of its close competitors. Part of the process of convergence to the frontier across the development process represents … that lag the frontier benchmark. Among potential explanatory variables that may drive convergence, ownership and human …