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Factor components of inequality: Cross-country differences and time changes

Breen, Richard; García-Peñalosa, Cecilia; Orgiazzi, Elsa - 2008

Recent work on inequality has examined either changes in the distribution of income or in that of earnings, without examining how the latter affects the former. In this paper we perform a factor decomposition of income inequality in order to assess the importance of earnings and income from...

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Evaluating real world income distributions behind the veil of ignorance: How risk averse do you have to be to prefer Europe over the US?

Weichenrieder, Alfons J.; Zafar, Tasneem - 2011

The paper uses a veil of ignorance approach and income distribution data of developed countries to arrive at inequality corrected income rankings. While a risk neutral individual (based on year 2000 data) would have preferred to be born into the US rather than any European country in our sample...

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The persistence of the gender earnings gap: Cohort trends and the role of education in twelve countries

Bar-Haim, Eyal; Chauvel, Louis; Gornick, Janet C.; … - 2018

Studying twelve countries over 30 years, we examine whether women's educational expansion has translated into a closing gender earnings gap. As educational attainment is cohortdependent, an Age-Period-Cohort analysis is most appropriate in our view. Using the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) data,...

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Raising utility and lowering risk through adaptive sustainability: Society and the risk of wealth inequity in Western Australia

Andrich, Mark A.; Oxburgh, E. Ronald; Imberger, Jorg - 2009

systems from various perspectives. This paper uses available household wealth and income data to calculate the resource rich … state of Western Australia's ISF from different wealth level perspectives. How wealth inequity may affect the stability of … changes in wealth distribution. The ISF results show that from the perspective of society's richest 20%, poorest 20%, mean …

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The future of worldwide income distribution

Hellebrandt, Tomáš; Mauro, Paolo - 2015

Combining consensus forecasts of growth of population and real incomes during 2014-35 with household income surveys for more than a hundred countries accounting for the bulk of the world economy, we project the income distribution in 2035 across all individuals in the world. We find that the...

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Inflation and the rich after the global financial crisis

Jovanovic, Branimir - 2014

This paper investigated the link between inflation and the top decile income share after the global financial crisis. The analysis was done on a sample of 42 countries. We found that higher inflation has reduced the income going to the top decile. The main explanation is that inflation has...

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Relative income distribution in six European countries: Market and disposable income

Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2015

The relationship between income inequality and polarization is an empirical fact: a change in equality might occur together with a change in polarization. At the same time, polarization might emerge while inequality remains constant. The outcome of this process entails relevant information about...

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A fresh look at an old question: Is pro-poor targeting of cash transfers more effective than universal systems at reducing inequality and poverty?

McKnight, Abigail - 2015

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty reduction in four EU countries - the UK, Italy, Sweden and France. We use long time series (spanning four decades) to examine trends within countries over time and between...

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Income redistribution through taxes and transfers across OECD countries

Causa, Orsetta; Nørlem Hermansen, Mikkel - 2018

This paper produces a comprehensive assessment of income redistribution to the working-age population, covering OECD countries over the last two decades. Redistribution is quantified as the relative reduction in market income inequality achieved by personal income taxes, employees' social...

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Universal child allowances in 14 middle income countries: Options for policy and poverty reduction

Evans, Martin; Hidalgo, Alejandra; Wang, Mei - 2018

This paper uses data from 14 Middle Income Countries in the Luxembourg Income Study database to examine the position of children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers from state social protection systems compared to...

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