This paper presents a nonparametric analysis of the impact of the 2008 crisis on earnings distribution in Turkey. Using micro-level data from the Household Labor Force Survey (2004-2011), I show that the crisis has operated most visibly above the upper quartile of the earnings distribution. I...

This paper constructs an assignment model that allocates a variable number of labor to a variable amount of capital. Sattinger introduced an assignment model in which a worker is coupled with a machine. In Sattinger's model, workers and machines differ in quality, e.g., ability, productivity,...

In this article we provide an overview of the Gini decomposition and the generalized entropy inequality measures, a free access to their computation, an application on French wages, and a different way than Dagum to demonstrate that the Gini index is a more convenient measure than those issued...

We present the preliminary results of our analysis of top incomes in Brazil from 2006 to 2012. We describe the evolution of the income shares of the top 1% and the top 5% and estimate a “tax-corrected†Gini coefficient. The data come from personal income tax returns, national accounts...

We extend the framework of Dubey and Geanakoplos (2002) to the case of moral hazard. We analyze the equilibrium properties of the model and we show that equal ex-ante consumers may choose to promise differently, and, as a consequence, choose different actions. This illustrates how the pool of...

This study aims to estimate the extent of intergenerational mobility of earnings in Taiwan. The intergenerational elasticity of a child's earnings with respect to its parent's earnings is estimated by using household micro-data from the Panel Study of Family Dynamics (PSFD) in Taiwan. We apply...

The present note is an elementary essay on how one may manipulate the Lorenz curve with a view to obtaining a couple of simple variants of the Gini coefficient of inequality, one of which is anti transfer-sensitive and the other pro transfer-sensitive, and which together, in convex combination,...

We use consumption expenditure data from the National Sample Surveys (1993-94 and 2009-10) and decompose the overall inequality in total consumption expenditure by different sources (food, education, health, durable goods and other items). Findings indicate that food expenditures which are the...

A simple model of the distribution of wealth is presented. In such a model the distribution of wealth follows a Pareto type II distribution whose parameters depend on the growth rates discussed in the book. Compared to previous studies of the asymptotic distribution of wealth in economies...

This note explains the use of the program of the (α,β)-decomposition of the α-Gini measures available in free access on the LAMETA's website: http://www.lameta.univ-montp1.fr/online/gini.html. Inspired by the recent works published about the weak decomposition of inequality measures, this...