population subgroups for total income inequality. Moreover, we show that existing methods are unsuitable to decompose the trend …

investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … small amount. The main reason for the rise in income inequality was that high-income percentiles had faster income growth … than lower percentiles; the fall in income inequality implies faster income growth among low-income percentiles. The paper …

population subgroups for total income inequality. Moreover, we show that existing methods are unsuitable to decompose the trend …

investigates long-term changes in income inequality and poverty in China. Income inequality rose before 2007 and then fell by a … small amount. The main reason for the rise in income inequality was that high-income percentiles had faster income growth … than lower percentiles; the fall in income inequality implies faster income growth among low-income percentiles. The paper …

population subgroups for total income inequality. Moreover, we show that existing methods are unsuitable to decompose the trend …

This paper reviews the pattern of income inequality in Mexico since 1994. It shows that in the past few years there has … been an important reduction of income inequality in Mexico, which has almost reverted the sharp increase in inequality … reduction of wage inequality in Mexico can be explained by a structural change in Mexico‟s workforce composition in terms of …

Survey under-coverage of top incomes leads to bias in survey-based estimates of overall income inequality. Using income … how it affects estimates of overall income inequality. More generally, we assess whether the SPI adjustment is fit for …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …

I focus on one of the most-commonly-cited 'facts'; about UK income inequality - that it has changed little over the … last 30 years - and reflect on how robust that description is. I look at a number of fundamental issues in inequality … measurement related to inequality concepts (e.g., inequality aversion, relative versus absolute inequality, and inequality of …