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 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 …

overall change in income inequality or poverty. It concludes that UGAMOD is a useful tool for tax policy makers to evaluate …

The paper analyses the changes in tax policy, tax/GDP ratios, tax incidence and income inequality which have taken … to improve the redistributive effect of taxation in the years ahead. -- tax policy ; tax incidence ; income inequality …

real measures of inequality. Using household budget survey and price data in Mozambique from 2002/03 and 2008/09, we show … inequality, by about two Gini points. This result is obtained by computing a price deflator that explicitly reflects divergent … price dynamics of different product categories. The difference in measured inequality is larger in regions where consumers …

2008/09, we show that once relative price increases are accounted for, inequality of real consumption increases … categories. Since the main factors driving this result prevail in other developing countries, it is likely that inequality may be …

How does income inequality impact the propensity for and levels of formal and informal household debt? This paper … as well as a zero-inflated Poisson model are employed, and inequality is measured by a household relative deprivation …

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in hous6000 unehold surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent …