higher degree of coincidence between the regional income distribution and regional foreign market access positions have … regimes have had a more polarizing effect in low and middle-income countries, whose structural features tend to potentiate the … trade effect and whose levels of internal spatial inequality are, on average, significantly higher than in high-income …

, where the paucity of subnational income data is persistent. The analysis compares the statistical relationships between … income and lights-based measures of spatial income inequality in South Africa and shows that night-lights are a decent proxy … for spatial income inequality. Further analysis of the patterns of lights-based spatial income inequality across 48 …

Household income inequality has declined in Latin America in the past decades, contributing significantly to poverty … reduction in the region. Although available evidence shows that changes in the labor income are among the main factors behind … total income inequality in some countries, but also to an increase in others. Using household survey data for a sample of 15 …

The author implements several inequality decomposition methods to measure the extent to which total household income … of total household inequality in Mexico is attributable to incomes derived from entrepreneurial activities, an income … inequality. Asymmetries in the allocation of education explain around 20 percent of overall household income disparities in …

12 Arab countries. It focuses on the sources of rural-urban, as well as metropolitan-nonmetropolitan, inequalities and … applies the unconditional quantile regression decomposition technique to analyze the welfare gaps across the entire … demographic composition, human capital, and community characteristics, appear as the main sources of the urban-rural welfare gap …

This analysis examines the relationship between nonrenewable resource dependence, economic growth and income inequality … check the robustness of the results under different assumptions and to account for income-group-related heterogeneity among … capita GDP and the Gini index; in other words, resource dependence is associated with lower income levels, but also with a …

dispersion of average incomes across countries. Between 1988 and 2008, a period of rapidly increasing global integration, income …

This research estimates the impact of international child sponsorship on adult income and wealth of formerly sponsored …. Estimations indicate that international child sponsorship increased monthly income by $13?17 over an untreated baseline of $75 …

s. This contributed to the well-known increase in the top 1 percent's share of total income, exacerbating rising … the asymmetries in the association, tests for robustness to alternative income definitions, and discusses the potential …