to changes at the extremes of the distribution might obscure inequality's actual dimension, and thus help perpetuate it … v.2, could function as a complementary indicator for the measurement of inequality. …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER's World Income Inequality Database. In order to … better understand the trends, global interpersonal inequality is decomposed into within-country and between …-country inequality. The paper illustrates that the relationship between global interpersonal inequality and these constituent components …

This paper aims to advance understanding about the relationship between taxation and inequality in developing countries … taxes promoted the progressivity of the tax system and contributed to the reduction of inequality. Yet, the effectiveness of …

capture consumption in wealthy households. As a result, inequality is likely underestimated. We address upper tier consumption … category upwardly adjusts upper tier consumption. Using scaled consumption, we find evidence that inequality in Mozambique is … underestimated and that inequality began increasing in 2002 rather than 2008 as the official numbers suggest.6000 un …

We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour … income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to … uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows a steady decline and the income expenditure survey suggests that inequality …

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 … various attractive properties. I also discuss alternative approaches used in the literature of factor inequality …

methods. In 2015, 2.5 per cent of the sample had per capita incomes imputed, resulting in slightly higher levels of inequality …. Inequality and poverty changes were not affected by imputation. We took advantage of the methodology proposed to input rents and …

Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and … between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …

inequality as a social dynamic within the space of support and evaluate whether providing worseoff others corresponds to former … discriminatory practices under the apartheid regime. My results suggest that inequality has normalized a sense of support as …