In many developing countries, the increasing public interest in monitoring economic inequality and mobility is hindered …

In many developing countries, the increasing public interest in monitoring economic inequality and mobility is hindered …

Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5 …,600 estimated Gini coefficient, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last … curve, with inequality rising in most countries prior to the 1990s, and falling during the early 21st Century, at least …

Drawing on a comprehensive compilation of quantile shares and inequality measures for 34 countries, including over 5 …,600 estimated Gini coefficients, we review the measurement of income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean over the last … seven decades. We find that there is quite a bit of uncertainty regarding inequality levels for the same country …

functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares due to differences in the structure … those of the United States and Mexico, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality is due to underlying …

This paper proposes a method to decompose earnings inequality into a component due to unequal opportunities and a … opportunity, we associate inequality of opportunities with the inequality attributable to circumstances which lie beyond the … decomposition as establishing a lower bound on the contribution of opportunities to earnings inequality. We further decompose the …

functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares due to differences in the structure … those of the United States and Mexico, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality is due to underlying …