In cross-sectional studies, countries with greater income inequality typically exhibit less support for government …-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve … along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social concern amplifying primal increases in inequality due to …

This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Côte d’Ivoire in the 1990s … inequality in Abidjan was the result of changes in the socio-demographic population structure and of changes in unobserved …/Non-Ivorian wage differential worked toward a more equal distribution. Concerning the link between growth and inequality, it is …

This paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Cˆote d’Ivoire in the 1990s … connected with rising inequality. _________________________________ Cet article propose une d´ecomposition micro-économique de l … inequality in Abidjan was the result of changes in the socio-demographic population structure and of changes in unobserved …

compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor … on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

compensated by a revenue-neutral reduction in income-related taxes. Based on a dual data base and a microsimulation model of labor … on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

of disposable income which combines quantile decomposition, simulation techniques and structural labor supply estimation …. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We …

of disposable income which combines quantile decomposition, simulation techniques and structural labor supply estimation …. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We …

In the microsimulation literature, it is still uncommon to test the statistical significance of results. In this … article we argue that this situation is both undesirable and unnecessary. Provided the parameters used in the microsimulation … are exogenous, as is often the case in static microsimulation of the first-order effects of policy changes, simple …

In the microsimulation literature, it is still uncommon to test the statistical significance of results. In this note … we argue that this situation is both undesirable and unnecessary. Provided the parameters used in the microsimulation are … exogenous, as is often the case in static microsimulation of the first-order effects of policy changes, simple statistical tests …