Shorrocks' axiomatic approach and the Theil-based decomposition). The role of transfers and taxes in mitigating total inequality …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 …

Objective: To assess whether an indicator of structural racism - the legacy of slavery - impacts racial inequality in … inequality in poverty. This overemphasis on an “individual-level” variable results in relatively less attention to the role of … structural factors. Yet, structural factors, like the legacy of slavery, may be key to understanding how race and family …

This article assesses various underlying driving factors for the evolution of household earnings inequality or 23 OECD … contribution of each of these factors is estimated using a semi parametric decomposition technique. The results reveal that marital … sorting and household structure changes contributed, albeit moderately, to increasing household earnings inequality, while …

counterfactual decomposition techniques. We find that vis-à-vis comparable workers born in developed countries, the workers born in …

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

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 …