This paper presents the first global and regional estimates of polarization and bipolarization spanning the period 1960 … polarization estimates. The study introduces a battery of sensitivity tests to assess the reliability of polarization estimates … polarization levels and trends. Overall, we find that relative bipolarization has consistently decreased since 1980, while in …

income inequality using household survey data is 0.464 for 2016, and it jumps to 0.646 after including the samples of the top … incomes, which demonstrates the great importance of the top incomes in estimating income inequality. …

relation with earnings and polarization, and inequality. We show some evidence of polarization in earnings but not with respect … explain most of the reduction in inequality in the period between 2003 and 2012, while changes in composition dominate the … rise in inequality in the period between 2012 and 2019. Both movements are dominated by changes in educational levels and …

Population Prospects to develop the most comprehensive database of lifespan inequality and polarization for 258 countries and … disparities in health outcomes. Tracking the evolution of lifespan inequality is essential to promoting social justice and equity … userfriendly website that enables users to compute lifespan inequality for any group of countries of their choice. These extensive …

Our hypothesis is that Nigeria is going through a process of economic polarization. An analysis of this type is new for … techniques. To explore polarization, our study uses instead the relative distribution methodology. Findings confirm the sharp … increase of polarization. Compared to 2003 consumption distribution is more concentrated in upper and lower defiles, while the …

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. …

upper percentiles in the counterfactual distributions - thus revealing the inequality-increasing effect of education in the …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 …