This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …

This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of … global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During … ‘absolute' measures. The results mirror trends in global inequality over the same period …

inequality for the group of high-income countries, as measured by the Gini coefficient, stands at 37 in 2013 and has increased by … incomes and the bottom 10% falling behind. Rising inequality within the United States drives almost half of the inequality … increase among high-income countries, a combination of a sizeable rise in inequality and a population share around a third in …

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of … global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During … 'absolute' measures. The results mirror trends in global inequality over the same period. …

Performing a panel data analysis for OECD countries, during the period between 1990 and 2019, this article investigates … per capita affect income inequality and how they differ. The results suggest a U-shaped relationship of both measures of … GDP per capita is used, inequality is higher, leading to the conclusion that countries with policies that inflate GDP …

Since globalisation accelerated in the early 1990s, income inequality has increased in most developed countries and in … some middle-income countries, including China and India. Also, inequality has declined in most countries of Latin America …. In this study, I examined whether there has been convergence in inequality between 2000 and 2015. To this end, I …

inequality empirics. While ethnic diversity h asalso been identified as one of the fundamental causes of income inequality, the … role of institutions as a mediating factor in the ethnicity-inequality nexus has not received the scholarly attention it … framework corrects the noisy influence originating from the nexus between "ethnic diversity" and inequality in 26 sub -Saharan …

performance of homogenous panel unit root tests in the presence of permanent volatility shifts. It is shown that in this case …, panel unit root tests derived under time invariant innovation variances lose control over actual significance levels while … hypothesis. -- Panel unit root tests ; variance breaks ; cross sectional dependence ; Fisher hypothesis …

In this paper we propose a simple extension to the panel case of the covariate-augmented Dickey Fuller (CADF) test for … with respect to other popular panel approaches. A procedure to compute the asymptotic p-values of Hansen’s CADF test is … hypothesis and the presence of a unit root in international industrial production indices. -- unit root ; panel data …