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 …

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 …

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 aims at measuring and analysing for the first time inequality in the distribution of expenditures among … decomposition of the Gini index through Shapley's approach, within-group inequality is greater than between-group inequality. These …

-level activities, size-wise as well as state-wise, thereby creating some sort of inequality. Moreover, we also show that the aggregate …

nature of occupational employment in explaining the rising earnings inequality during the same period. First, we find …-15. Third, using reference influence function regressions, we quantify the extent to which changes in inequality over time can …

Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver … of inequality. In this paper, I use the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series, the General Household Surveys, and … administrative tax microdata to describe earnings inequality in South Africa. I estimate Gini coefficients, the variance of log …

What is the relationship between inequality and growth? This question has occupied and fascinated social scientists for … interplay between inequality and economic growth. Inequality might come in many forms: (top) incomes, wages, wealth, land, or … potential for growth to 'take off'. We consider causality running from inequality to growth; hence, the Kuznets hypothesis is …

This paper identifies the socioeconomic drivers of earnings inequality in Peru in the period 2004-18. Using the ENAHO … household surveys and data on routine task content of occupations, we apply inequality decomposition methods to the real … earnings distribution, its quantiles, and the Gini index. We find that in this period inequality has reduced, with great …