After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear … 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 …

American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century …. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income … database of comparable microdata from household surveys, this article updates the evidence on the trends of income inequality …

This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …

This paper summarizes statistics on the key aspects of the distribution of earnings levels and earnings changes using … administrative (social security) data from Italy between 1985 and 2016. During the time covered by our data, earnings inequality and … inequality, while the rise in fixed‐term contracts explains much of the rise in volatility. Both of these trends affect the …

century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

1950s/early 1960s greatly expanded the research on education and income and shifted the focus to wages. The human capital …This chapter discusses the large literature and numerous issues regarding education-related differences in income in … estimating the returns to education and experience. Recent analyses of education and wages have built on this foundation and have …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around … reduced world inequality. Income inequality has changed little within countries, so the downward trend remains intact. However …

for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such data. The …In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries …