In this study, we document the decline in income inequality and a convergence in consumption patterns in Brazilian … regression framework, we find that labor income growth, formalization, and schooling contributed to the decline in inequality …

technological transfers. This paper surveys our understanding of how migration affects growth and inequality through the impact on …

The poverty-reducing effects of remittances have been well-documented, however, their effects on inequality are less … clear. This paper examines the impact of remittances on inequality in Mexico using household-level information on the … crises: the 1994 Mexican Peso crisis and the Global Financial Crisis. We find that remittances lower inequality, and that …

inequality has reduced long distance migration, the type most linked to jobs. For those migrating uphill, from a less to a more … dominate the incentives from higher earnings. By contrast, increasing income inequality drives the fall in downhill migration …

This paper uses the Shapley Value decomposition technique to assess the factors behind the rise of inequality in China …. It finds that, in many ways, inequality may have been an inevitable by-product of China's investment and export …-led growth model. Between Chinese households, we find that the most important factors explaining income inequality are location …

findings indicate that increases in national income have a significant moderating effect on income inequality: a one percent … could help reduce income inequality …