Using Brazilian household survey data, this paper aims to contribute for a better understanding of the income … inequality evolution from 1981 to 2001. This is done by decomposing the time evolution of the income inequality among Brazilian … Deaton and Paxson (1994) to a series of Theil-T inequality indexes of overall family income and earnings for the whole sample …

This paper examines the impact of demographic change on household income inequality in the United States, both … methodology to study their joint compositional effect on income inequality. In the process, we also develop a novel methodology to … document that cohorts born later in the 20th century embody higher levels of income inequality compared to earlier-born cohorts …

in Canada using a static approach based on annual income combined with the novel approach of breaking down taxpayers by … age cohort. The paper examines how tax rates net of transfers differ by age and income group, and how those rates change … income distribution are net recipients of government transfers with negative net tax rates equal to about -48 percent for the …