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The Inequality Possibility Frontier : Extensions and New Applications

Milanovic, Branko - 2017

This paper extends the Inequality Possibility Frontier approach in two methodological directions. It allows the social minimum to increase with the average income of a society, and it derives all the Inequality Possibility Frontier statistics for two other inequality measures besides the Gini....

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Accounting for Mexican Income Inequality During the 1990s

De Hoyos Navarro, Rafael E. - 2016

The author implements several inequality decomposition methods to measure the extent to which total household income disparities can be attributable to sectoral asymmetries and differences in skill endowments. The results show that at least half of total household inequality in Mexico is...

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Equity, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy in General Equilibrium

Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2005

We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality adjusted social welfare functions in a...

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Why South Africa is Cheap for the Rich and Expensive for the Poor : Reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson Effect

Dadam, Vincent - 2019

This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional … consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade …, while skill intensive service sectors have had significant productivity growth. This is the inverse of the traditional …

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Level of Income and Income Distribution in Mid-18th Century France, According to Francois Quesnay

Milanovic, Branko - 2010

The paper uses the data from Francois Quesnay's writings to derive a social table for pre-revolutionary France, estimate country's mean income and income distribution. These Quesnay-based estimates are compared with more recent estimates of 18th century French incomes and inequality

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Distributional Effects of Intergovernmental Transfers in Mexico

Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020

A rigorous understanding of the developmental effect of fiscal transfers to subnational governments remains an important policy research issue globally. This paper exploits a novel dataset of 20 years of municipal poverty maps and local public finances to study the effects on local welfare of a...

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The Distributive Impact of Taxes and Expenditures in Colombia

Jairo, Nunez - 2020

Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and made more than four million Colombians jump the threshold of multidimensional poverty. However, it remains one of the most unequal countries in the region, after Brazil and...

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Inequality, Poverty and the Intra-Household Allocation of Consumption in Senegal

De Vreyer, Philippe - 2020

Intra-household inequalities have long been a source of concern for policy design, but there is very little evidence. The current practice of ignoring inequality within households could lead to an underestimation of both overall inequality and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification...

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Using Labor Supply Elasticities to Learn about Income Inequality : The Role of Productivities versus Preferences

Bergstrom, Katy - 2020

This paper argues that labor supply elasticities encode information about the determinants of income inequality. In the theoretical framework, individuals choose labor supply conditional on productivities and preferences for consumption relative to leisure. The paper shows that reduced-form...

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Nonfarm Activity and Rural Income Inequality : A Case Study of Two Provinces in China

Zhu, Nong - 2006

Nonfarm activity plays an increasingly important role in rural household income. Based on data from the Living Standards Measurement Study in the provinces of Hebei and Liaoning, the authors study the distribution of nonfarm income in rural China. First, they assume nonfarm income as an...

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