This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for … gains and the inequality costs of trade liberalization are quantified and the trade-offs between them are assessed using an … inequality costs (gains), which arise because trade tends to exacerbate income inequality: 45 countries face a trade-off, while …

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

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 …

economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight … poverty and inequality. …