, while inequality tends to rise monotonically. Bonus caps and income taxes can help restore balance in agents' incentives and …

high levels of inequality. Decomposition analysis shows that poverty reduction in Namibia is largely driven by growth in … mean incomes rather than redistribution. Even so, there have been important changes in inequality, especially between … different social groups, as educational attainment has replaced ethnicity as the main determinant of inequality between groups. …

inequality of income and expenditure over that period. The paper calculates Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz curves and also the … examines the composition of changes in inequality of income over the period. …

This paper presents an analysis of bureaucratic corruption, income inequality and economic development. The analysis is … model predicts a positive relationship between corruption and inequality, and a negative relationship between corruption and …

(DHS) which lack information on incomes. This makes an analysis of trends and determinants of poverty and inequality … incomes from assets in the DHS, and is able to generate new information on poverty and inequality in Bolivia. …

, a reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore, necessitates the conversion of the original … data from the Luxembourg Income Study for examining the sensitivity of the Gini and the Theil index to the chosen … conversion strategy, and explain our results by means of an inequality decomposition by population subgroups. …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …