This article describes a user-written command, descogini, that decomposes the Gini coefficient by income source and … allows the calculation of the impact that a marginal change in a particular income source will have on inequality. descogini …

Sen [1976] with the Gini index of poverty gap ratio, that is, a fundamental component of Sen’s poverty index. The problem … is that this Gini index does not offer any information on the determinants of the inequalities. For this purpose, Mussard … [2004] introduced the bidimensional decomposition of the Gini ratio, where both sub-groups and income sources are jointly …

more acute in Thailand and with the wake of unemployment and decrease in real wages, income inequality increased both in …

indicators are needed to allow a rank on the basis of specific value judgments. Using the Analysis of Gini (ANOGI), we are able …

inequality. Incomes in lower deciles were strongly supported by growth in labour participation, while those in the upper deciles … were supported by growth in returns on capital investment. This paper contends that the income inequality debate may need …

well as those of the five components have been determined. The GINI and FUND coefficients have been calculated to devise … the spatial inequality. The evidence from the analyzed data indicates that there is a tendency to rising inequality …

use of native slavery. The slavery variables are highly correlated with current levels of inequality. The correlation … between our slavery use variables and inequality is stronger than that observed between inequality and development, geographic … past may be an important determinant of the levels of inequality observed today across the globe. …