-coefficients were used for measuring earnings inequality. Relative changes in earnings inequality for sickness benefits were explained …

This paper examines inequality patterns in the 1990s in Poland, Russia and Hungary. We consider three different … definitions of income and analyse the contributions to inequality of their main components using LIS micro data. Inequality is … Shorrocks' axiomatic approach and the Theil-based decomposition). The role of transfers and taxes in mitigating total inequality …

This paper presents findings on the changing effectiveness of cash transfers and income taxes on inequality and poverty … and inequality. The strength of the relationship varies between countries and in some cases between the all age and the …

variables are LIS data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25 to 59 and the … inequality has increased in the United States because the country failed to invest sufficiently in education. The main … determinants of market income inequality are (in order of size of the effect) family structure (single mother households), union …

time from the sample. The paper outlines a procedure to obtain jackknife estimates for several inequality indices with only …

equally. Income inequality among men has increased markedly since the 1970s, suggesting that differences among fathers have …

episodes in order to prevent rising income inequality. …

conditioning on a variety of country-level factors that may matter for growth and inequality changes. This evidence confirms the …

the impact on marital sorting of both inequality between educational strata and increasing gender parity in the labor and …

Inequality is anisotropic: its intensity is variable along the income scale. Therefore, to focus on local inequalities … coefficients able to summarize the shape of inequalities: a main coefficient, alpha, measures inequality at the median, and two …