Overall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver …

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 …

We analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries … represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators. Income is more highly concentrated than … expenditure is more unequally distributed than income in urban areas. China has a much stronger correlation in individual ranks …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around …

household surveys by combining information on income shares from household surveys and top income shares from tax data. The … methodology relies on a flexible parametric functional form that models the income distribution for each country-year point under … and 42 per cent, depending on the period of analysis, and the assumed level of truncation of the income distribution. …