This paper examines the sensitivity of inequality and poverty measures to the choice of adult equivalence scales and …

This paper analyzes the relationship between polarization and inequality, welfare and poverty measures. First, the …

Analysis of income inequality is often applied to the case of measuring total income inequality in a given population … population. This paper examines the causes of inequality growth in Russia during transition. Using RLMS data author tries to … assess the contribution of different income sources to total income inequality and define what household features responsible …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

inequality; and the importance of institutions to growth. Local development experience also reveals the interrelatedness of the …; the role of health to human capital; the significance of human capital to poverty and inequality; the value of human …

We propose self-employment as an explanation for the observed reduction in inequality occurring after the Mexican … inequality was expected to increase because the only asset of the poor was labour. Self-employment has been an escape to … inflation and staggered wages bringing as a consequence reduced inequality. Therefore, individuals will be pushed into self …

indicators and income inequality. We find empirical evidence to state that the institutional background is essential to explain … the size of SE; income inequality is weakly correlated with SE; the level of GDP is correlated positively with SE as …

excessive flexibility, resulting in suboptimal growth or even self-sustaining technology-inequality traps. Fourth, I examine how … configurations of technology, inequality and redistributive policy are feasible in the long run, when all three are endogenous. I … show in particular how the diffusion of technology leads to the “exporting” of inequality across borders; and how this, in …