country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes …

We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition methodscan be reconciled with regression … approach. TheLIS database is used to compare the approaches using an analysis of the changingcontributions to inequality in the …

This paper presents a way to explore how macroeconomic shifts cause inequality changes. It is based on the backwardness … control over the direct impact on inequality changes caused by macroeconomic changes that affects the relative competitiveness … unobserved characteristics). The decomposition methodology here proposed shows to be consistent under few assumptions (log normal …

popular concentration index. We then implement the decomposition method of the indices and evaluate the contribution of the …

and vertical inequality. That means usual assessments of pro-poor growth look at distributional changes over time and … case of Indonesia, robust to measurement error in the expenditure data. …

This analysis aims to understand the role and the extent of childhood circumstances in current inequality in health … European countries are measured using the popular concentration index. We then implement the decomposition method of the … adulthood in Europe. As childhood circumstances represent unfair sources of inequality, these results give an empirical …

decomposition of the Gini coefficient and generalize it, in some cases, to the decomposition of other inequality indices. For the …Decomposing inequality indices across household groups or income sources is useful in estimating the contribution of … each component to total inequality. This can help policy makers draw efficient policies to reduce disparities in the …