This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations onunemployment and inequality … workers) leads to: higherunemployment, less income inequality, a higher proportion of formal employment, and alower formal …

Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of … sensitivity analysis indicates that virtually all of the decline in measured inequality when moving from money income to extended … measured inequality is insensitive to the correlation between money and household production income. The practical importance …

In this paper we provide a new methodology to measure opportunity inequality and to decompose overall inequality in an … the basis of a measure of opportunity inequality. Then, we repeat the exercise using the cognitive abilities in a sample … greater incidence of inequality of opportunity …

categorical data. The approach here focuses on "pure" or univariate health inequality (rather than income-related or bivariate … health inequality) and is based on a concept of individual status that allows a consistent treatment of such data. We use … inequality for the countries contained in the World Health Survey; we also use regression analysis on the apparent determinants …