Despite an improvement in overall macroeconomic performance in Costa Rica, income inequality has risen and is currently … significant progress in reducing inequality. This study analyses the drivers of inequality in Costa Rica by decomposing the Gini … coefficient by income source, finding that the main contributor to inequality in Costa Rica is labour income. In the period 2010 …

residential mobility? iv) Is there a link between homeownership and wealth inequality? Between inequality in housing wealth and in … distribution. Another important issue is whether housing-related policies raise potential trade-offs between equity, or inequality … promote inclusiveness and social mobility, to enhance efficiency in the allocation of labour and capital and to strengthen …

recession, resulting in a substantial rise in unemployment, and income and wealth inequality. This paper uses longitudinal data … Spain, as well as the mobility of households within those distributions. Results show an increase in the concentration of … group incomes rising. In addition, higher levels of mobility within the middle of the household wealth distribution are …

-satisfaction. This paper reviews the social progress that Costa Rica has achieved and identifies reducing inequality and poverty as the …

employment rate, but also high wage inequality, informality and labour turnover, which limits incentives for firms to invest in …

In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity … employer-employee dataset for 14 OECD countries to analyse the role of firms in wage inequality. The main finding is that, on … overall wage inequality. Two thirds of these changes in between-firm wage inequality are accounted for by changes in …