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Income polarization and economic growth
Brzezinski, Michal - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2013
-level datasets, as well as datasets reconstructed from grouped data on income distribution taken from the World Income Inequality … growth in the short term, while the impact of income inequality on growth is statistically insignificant. Our results are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010878126
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Does regional cost-of-living reshuffle Italian income distribution?
Massari, Riccardo; Pittau, M. Grazia; Zelli, Roberto - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
This paper examines how spatial price differentials affect income distribution in Italy. The distribution of household income is “reshuffled” after controlling for the purchasing power of households residents in different regions, but only when housing price variations are included in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008502854
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Poverty and Women’s Labor Market Activity: the Role of Gender Wage Discrimination in the EU
Gradín, Carlos; Cantó, Olga; Río, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2006
The functioning of the labor market often has been stressed as a clear determinant in explaining poverty trends in developed countries. In this paper, we analyze the role of gender wage discrimination on household poverty rates in several EU countries, linking two related phenomena that rarely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413382
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Equivalence scales reconsidered – an empirical investigation
Bönke, Timm; Schröder, Carsten - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2008
Households can differ in size and needs. A reliable assessment of inequality in living standards, therefore … by means of an inequality decomposition by household types. Country inequality rankings are sensitive to the conversion … strategy applied. The decomposition analysis reveals the underlying mechanisms. We find inequality estimates typically to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005413420
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Race and income distribution: Evidence from the US, Brazil and South Africa
Gradín, Carlos - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
The aim of this paper is to provide some empirical evidence about black-white differentials in the distribution of income and wellbeing in three different countries: Brazil, US and South Africa. In all cases, people of African descent are in a variety of ways socially disadvantaged compared with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008782824
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Transport consumption inequalities and redistributive effects of taxes: A comparison of France, Denmark and Cyprus
Berri, Akli; Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie Vincent; Mulalic, Ismir - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
contribution of vehicle use items to total expenditure inequality decreases over time, thus reflecting the more and more widespread …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512112
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Happiness, deprivation and the alter ego
Verme, Paolo - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
The paper focuses on satisfaction with income and proposes a utility model built on two value systems, the `Ego' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to one own past and future income - and the `Alter' system - described as one own income assessment relatively to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512113
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Measuring long-term inequality of opportunity
Aaberge, Rolf; Mogstad, Magne; Peragine, Vito - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2010
as well off as he could be by undertaking inter-period income transfers. There is long-term ex-post inequality of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008512115
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Declining inequality in Latin America: Some economics, some politics
Birdsall, Nancy; Lustig, Nora; McLeod, Darryl - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009143514
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Fiscal policy and income redistribution in Latin America: Challenging the conventional wisdom
Lustig, Nora - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2011
Conventional wisdom states that fiscal policy redistributes little in Latin America. Lower tax revenues and – above all – lower and less progressive transfers have been identified as the main cause. Existing studies show that, while in Europe the distribution of all transfers combined (cash...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366275