, we cannot be sure whether the decline in inequality will continue. -- inequality ; decomposition ; education ; wages …We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an …

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 …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around … one half - of wealth inequality. Broadly similar results are found for different years and different inequality indices …

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 …

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 …

This paper aims at providing new evidence over the effect of conventional monetary policy shocks on wage inequality … structural shocks in a vector error correction model. Impulse response functions show that the overall wage distribution worsens … monetary shock. Interestingly, the top half of the distribution always narrow relative to the bottom indicating that better …

In very poor countries, inequality often means that a small part of the population maintains living standards far above … the rest. This is also true for educational inequality in Mozambique: only a small segment of the population has access to … higher levels of education (there are 30 times as many schools offering grade 1 than grade 12) and receives education of a …

This paper provides evidence on the nature of returns to education in Ghana and confirms the emerging empirical … literature on the convexity of returns to education in Ghana. Using a basic Mincerian, model we find that returns to education … results point to the importance of higher education in productivity. Nonetheless educational policies should not only be …

education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between … in education, gender inequality in educational attainment has consistently been declining over time. The same consistent …

understanding horizontal inequality and indigenous politics. This paper presents new analysis of survey data, allowing for … educational outcomes. Ethnic groups also show distinct patterns of wages and wage gaps, and there is evidence of a 'sticky floor …