This paper analyzes the impact of rural-to-urban migration on income inequality and gender wage gap in source regions … income inequality is time-persisting, we use a system GMM framework to control for the lagged income inequality, in which … inequality in the sending communities. Specifically, contemporary emigration increases income inequality, while lagged emigration …

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … entails a decrease in inequality that ranges between -1.5% (for the Gini index) and -4.5% (for the interquartile ratio). This … is essentially driven by a reduction in inequality between countries, while the effect of migration on within …

inequality and economic growth, implying the conclusion that inequality reducing policies will foster economic growth. The … likely to suffer from a severe weak instrument problem in the inequality-growth setting because lagged differences of … inequality have practically no explanatory power for current inequality levels. Thus, it is biased in the direction of OLS and …

There is a long-held belief that inequality is a major determinant of violent crime, particularly homicides. Some … inequality. This study addresses the issue of measurement error in inequality by using the relationship between migration and … inequality. Using rainfall shocks and changes in transport costs as exogenous sources of out-migration from rural areas in Brazil …

curbing rising income inequality. …