This paper explains how to build Lorenz Curves for income distributions and discusses their use for inequality … and draw Lorenz Curves. A discussion on the use of Lorenz Curves to represent inequality is also provided. It highlights …

This paper decomposes income inequality in Guatemala in factors related to human capital, ethnic and gender … decomposition. The empirical results show a significant variation in the contribution between the determinants at a national level … inequality is persistent across the sample. …

income inequality during the transition process. The most obvious success story in the process of transition to date has been … only modest increases in inequality. Hence, a detailed analysis of the Polish experience, with a view toward asking what …

connection between education and economic inequality. …

This paper challenges the conventional wisdom that income and consumption inequality in Poland increased substantially … income inequality increased in 1989 but subsequently declined to pretransition levels. The distribution of consumption … income inequality during the transition. However, the relative well-being of different socioeconomic groups was altered and …

In the last decade Argentina experienced a process of wage inequality reduction that is in stark contrast with the …. The method employed is a decomposition proposed by Firpo, Fortin and Lemieux (2007, 2011), which allows extending the …

This article uses data from the 1994-2001 waves of the European Community Household Panel to study economic inequality … related features of inequality, such as age, employment status, educational attainment, marital status and economic mobility …. It also documents changes in inequality from 1994 to 2001, a period of economic expansion in Portugal. The statistical …