inequality measures. LIS is a well-managed and undeniably important global public institution for research on inequality and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …

The interplay of between- and within-country inequality, the relative contribution of each to overall global inequality … avenue for economic research. Drawing conclusions from aggregate inequality indices such as the Gini and Theil reduces the … highly complex nature of global inequality to a single coefficient and makes it impossible to take a nuanced view of how …

comparable methodology yields the following results. Direct taxes and cash transfers reduce inequality and poverty by nontrivial … at government costs, they reduce inequality in all countries by considerably more than cash transfers, reflecting their …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the ‘re-centered influence function’ method to decompose …-in demand; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially …