role of individual and geographical factors in determining the level and the change in income inequality in India. We find … that between-state income differences account for the majority of between-district income inequality in rural India in 2011 …. However, in urban India within-state income differences explain most of the between- district inequality in 2011. We also find …

-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze …This paper studies on the determinants of income and urban-rural income gap to shed light on the problem of urban … essential determinants of households' income level. These two factors exert heterogeneous effects at different percentiles of …

of these new evaluation tools: in the first exercise, we compare the income distributions of South and North of Italy on …

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … and consumption across regions over this period. Our last question is focused on identifying the sources … inequality across expenditure sources. Finally, our results suggest that education and living in an urban area are significant …

This paper analyzes convergence in per capita gross regional product of Russia's regions during the period 1995 … find divergence, which is, however, attenuated over time. Robustness checks that use regional real income instead of gross … probability matrices and stochastic kernel plots of regional relative income. Decompositions of regional income and gross regional …

This paper delivers new insights into the development of income inequality and regional stratification in Germany after … unification using a new method for detecting social stratification by a decomposition of the GINI index which yields the … its own when using post-government income, but since 2001 no longer is when using pre-government income. These results …

We develop a new approach to the decomposition of income risk within a nonstationary model of intertemporal choice. The … approach allows for changes in income risk over the life-cycle and with the business cycle. It requires only repeated cross …-section data and can allow for mixtures of persistent and transitory components in the dynamic process for income. Evidence from a …

As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income … distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends … of education. As permanent migration takes more mass from the upper half of rural income density, both rural income level …