This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition …. In particular, if the observed wage inequality response to price and technology shocks reflects a short-run response in … observed increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies …

1998-2001 period have offset the increase in inequality that would have occurred otherwise. They also contribute to a …

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based … compares inequality rankings across a number of different approaches and finds considerable sensitivity to the choice between …

Using counterfactual microsimulations, Shapley decompositions of time change in inequality and poverty indices make it … distributional evaluation of policy reforms. An application to the UK (1998-2001) confirms previous findings that inequality and …

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the …

. Our aim is to describe the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality. Our framework nests the special …

our methodology. We utilised the framework to model changes to the level of income inequality from the period just before … inequality fell in the early part of the crisis, but rose steadily and then rapidly. Much of this change was due to rising … inequality of market incomes, (even when discounting unemployment). This was due to the differential effect of the downturn on …