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Explaining cross-state earnings inequality differentials in India: An RIF decomposition approach

Gradín, Carlos - 2018

Despite the relevance of geographical disparities in India, earnings inequality occurs mostly within states, but with a broad range of variability in its levels. We investigate the sources of such variability using RIF decompositions of the inequality gaps between most populous states and India....

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The recentered influence function and unidimensional poverty measurement

Gradín, Carlos - 2021

I discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between … in the empirical literature estimates the relationship between individual poverty functions of additive measures … their poverty function, this approach is simply a specific case of the onestage recentered influence function decomposition …

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Unequal expectations: Gender inequality in the salary expectations of university students

Gradín, Carlos; Mambo, Felix; Paris, Yonesse; Santos, … - 2020

Students' expectations about their future wages are established in the literature as relevant determinants of the choices made for education progression and, at the university level, for the area and course to be studied. In this paper, the first comparable analysis in sub-Saharan Africa, we...

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Changes in inequality within countries after 1990

Gradín, Carlos - 2020

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries since around 1990. We cope with the heterogeneity in the original information (regarding the measure of resources, equivalence scale, etc.) by focusing on the trends rather than on...

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Implications of the changing nature of work for employment and inequality in Ghana

Gradín, Carlos; Schotte, Simone - 2020

In this paper, we analyse the role of the changing nature of occupational employment and wages in explaining the trend in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the economy, with workers moving out of agriculture and...

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Trends in global inequality using a new integrated dataset

Gradín, Carlos - 2021

This paper presents preliminary evidence of the annual global income distribution since 1950 using a new integrated dataset that aggregates standardized country income distributions at the percentile level estimated from various sources in the World Income Inequality Database. I analyse the...

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Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality: An application to Mozambique

Gradín, Carlos - 2018

In this paper, I quantify the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality. This is defined as the sum of the contributions of its members, with these contributions computed as the impact on inequality of a small increase in the population mass at each point of the distribution (using the...

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Inequality by population groups and income sources: Accounting for inequality changes in Spain during the recession

Gradín, Carlos - 2019

I discuss a new approach which decomposes inequality into the contributions of population groups by income sources. I estimate a matrix with rows and columns which indicate different population groups and income sources respectively, with each element indicating the marginal change in the...

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Investigating growing inequality in Mozambique

Gradín, Carlos; Tarp, Finn - 2017

, curbing the necessary reduction in poverty. Using a regression decomposition technique, our results suggest that this trend …

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