The ‘paradox of progress’ is an empirical regularity that associates more education with larger income inequality. Two … quantile regression statistical framework to derive a decomposition in order to evaluate the relative contribution of each … explanation. The estimators are based on the ‘functional derivative’ approach. We apply the proposed decomposition strategy to the …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … developing countries. It includes a discussion of data sources and measurement issues, evidence on the levels of inequality and … discussion of their determinants. There has been tremendous progress in the measurement of inequality and poverty in the …

signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …

increases in income inequality and poverty. We link this result to a sizeable downgrading of (mostly unregistered) Venezuelan …

The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among …-national perspective on the topic. Based on rich sets of harmonized household survey data, we contribute to filling this gap computing time … observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …