disparities and widening income inequality. Using the additional revenues of the Canal expansion in a targeted cash transfer …

wage structure. The substantial rise in wage inequality in the U.S. since the late 1970s has been accompanied by a major …, contributing to the rise in overall wage inequality in the economy. Simple extensions of the basic framework allow us to study the …

In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini … article has evolved to become a further attempt at contributing to the literature on inequality and the statistics to measure … it. As in my 2011 paper, in this one I also conclude that if we want to understand why inequality is so unequal across …

This paper decomposes the rise in cross-sectional earnings inequality in Sweden between 1990 and 2002 into changes in … inequality is in both countries a consequence of rising upper tail dispersion. Contrary to the U.S. experience, where the rise is …

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that … reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution (the 50/10 wage ratio), but the impacts are typically less than …

This paper measures pay inequality in the EU during the convergence process to the Monetary Union. The decomposability … of declining pay inequality across Europe for this period, which is due mainly to the rising (initially, negative …

Unemployment and earnings inequality have moved closely together in South Africa in recent years, suggesting that there … unemployment and earnings inequality in South Africa, specifically investigating the extent to which changes in unemployment can … account for changes in earnings inequality. Decomposing overall income inequality by factor source shows the overwhelming …

Inequality-Globalization nexus. It is shown that by modifying this model and relaxing some of its most restrictive assumptions … suitable modelling of the Inequality-Globalization nexus. …