This paper draws on the work of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) and presents a new method for examining the distribution of the benefits of growth in developing countries. The method allows one to present decompositions in the form of cumulative distribution functions, Lorenz curves and...

Many empirical income distributions are complicated by the existence of a second mode, found in the lower range of incomes. This phenomenon can be generated by the labour supply effects of means-tested transfer payments and the associated high effective marginal tax rates which have strong...

The aim of this paper is to present a method of examining the effects of macroeconomic variables on the personal distribution of income over time. Given the complexity of the relation between macroeconomic variables and the personal distribution, involving a 'mapping' from just a few variables...

Much of the work that has been carried out since the early 1970s on the properties of alternative inequality measures has been concerned with the relationship between the inequality measures and basic value judgements. In the empirical measurement of inequality and in tax policy simulation...

Economic growth in Less Developed Countries (LDCs) over the last fifty years has often been accompanied by increasing income inequality. To explore this problem, we studied the relationship between income equality and development for forty LDCs using principal component analysis followed by...

This paper uses a dynamic cohort lifetime simulation model in order to examine the redistributive effect on annual and lifetime inquality of a range of taxes and transfers in Australia. The model allows for family formation births of children, labour force participation of males and females,...

The earnings distribution of full-time employee male and female immigrants to Australia are contrasted with those of native-born workers using data from ABS Income Distribution Surveys spanning the period 1982 to 1996. In addition to presentation of summary measures of distributional features,...

This paper has examined the distributional effects of monopoly using quivalent variations. It was found that, whatever the size of the absolute welfare loss due to monopoly, there may be a substantial effect on the distribution of welfare.

This paper investigates a Bayesian approach for examining posterior distributions of several inequality, concentration, tax progressivity and social welfare measures.

This paper considers the question whether it is possible, using information about only the distribution of earnings, to identify some of the labour supply incentive effects of a tax and transfer system.