This paper analyzes the microeconomic sources of wage inequality in the United States from 1967-2012. Decomposing … inequality into factors categorized by degree of personal responsibility, we find that education is able to explain more than … twice as much of inequality today as 45 years ago. However, neither hours worked nor education, industry, marital status, or …

Inequality in its different dimensions may undermine the growth process itself through a number of channels. In this … paper we have investigated three major things. First, what is the present scenario of income inequality of the Asian … countries? That is whether inequality in these countries is increasing, decreasing or hovers around some threshold level. Second …

multidimensional deprivation using the MDI is that this index is sensitive to inequality and can be fully broken down by deprivation …

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … only a few exceptions, we compare the same inequality concept obtained from the same source in two different years in each … witnessing a decline of inequality as measured by the Gini index, even if once accounted for the fact that inequality increased …

This paper focusses on income inequality in Asia, its drivers and policies to combat it. It finds that income … inequality has risen in most of Asia, in contrast to many other regions. While in the past, rapid growth in Asia has come with … equity" miracle. There is a growing consensus that high levels of inequality can hamper the pace and sustainability of growth …

Although it is not a new phenomenon, in recent years inequality has moved to the top of the political agenda given the … concern that will result in political instability and social resentment. Persistence in inequality can further undermine …. The persistent nature of inequality stands as one of the most serious challenges for the global economy. This paper …

Although it is not a new phenomenon, in recent years inequality has moved to the top of the political agenda given the … concern that will result in political instability and social resentment. Persistence in inequality can further undermine …. The persistent nature of inequality stands as one of the most serious challenges for the global economy. This paper …

This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the … of inequality measures for 201 countries at five-year intervals over the period under analysis. We estimate both absolute … and relative inequality measures which have the property of being additively decomposable. This property makes the …

in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …

earned and non-earned income contribute to explain between household income inequality. We show that this impact depends not … adult, participation, labor earnings, hourly earnings, working hours, and in non-earned income affect inequality levels. We … find an empirically discrete relationship between gender gaps and income inequality. Although this relationship tends to …