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India: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Skills Tasks Earnings inequalityBook Chapter
Bangladesh: employment and inequality trendsFrom the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
Labour force survey Inequality PolarizationWorking Paper
Determinants of gender gaps in youth employment in urban MozambiqueIn this study, we explore the correlates of the employment gender gap among urban youth in Mozambique. Young people are confronted with simultaneous decisions about education, work and family life influenced by social norms around gender roles...
Gender gap Employment DecompositionBook Chapter
Exploring concepts of social mobilityFrom the book: Social mobility in developing countries
Social mobility Economic mobility MacromobilityWorking Paper
The recentered influence function and unidimensional poverty measurementI discuss the applicability of the recentered influence function (RIF) to the analysis of poverty differentials between distributions (regression-based decomposition into composition and income structure effects)...
Poverty Recentered influence function DecompositionWorking Paper
Re-examining the Brazilian South–Northeast labour income gap: A decomposition approachThe purpose of this article is to provide new evidence about the sources of regional income inequalities in Brazil along the wage distribution, taking into account the regional differentials in purchasing power...
Brazil Income inequality DecompositionJournal Article
Inequality by population groups and income sources: Accounting for inequality changes in Spain during the recessionThe author discusses a new approach which decomposes inequality into the contributions of population groups by income sources...
Decomposition Recession Earnings inequalityBook Chapter
India: Inequality trends and dynamics, the bird’s-eye and the granular perspectivesFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Inequality Decomposition Welfare dynamicsWorking Paper
Sources of output growth in the countries of the Common Monetary Area and provinces of South AfricaThis paper aims to decompose the sources of growth in economies in the Southern African region’s Common Monetary Area and in the provinces of South Africa...
Growth Efficiency TechnologyWorking Paper
The influence of household composition on leisure time in South Africa: A gender comparisonThis study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the South African 2010 Time Use Survey...
leisure household composition Gender inequalityWorking Paper
Earnings inequality and the changing nature of work: Evidence from Labour Force Survey data of BangladeshWith structural changes in production coupled with technological progress, there have been shifts in modes of production and patterns of employment, with important consequences on task composition of occupations...
Labour force survey Inequality PolarizationWorking Paper
Evolution of wage inequality in India (1983–2017): The role of occupational task contentWe examine data for urban workers in the non-agricultural sector across three decades, 1983–2017, and find that earnings inequality increased during 1983–2004, was largely stable during 2004–11, and decreased during 2011–17...
Skills Tasks Earnings inequalityJournal Article
Quantifying the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality an application to MozambiqueIn this study, I quantify the contribution of a subpopulation to inequality...
Inequality Decomposition Recentered influence functionWorking Paper
Agro-industry, exports, and income distribution: A multiplier decomposition analysis for MyanmarThis paper considers the impacts of agro-industry development and international trade on income distribution in Myanmar, focusing on low-income rural households...
Social Accounting Matrix Decomposition MyanmarWorking Paper
Closing the gap: Gender and innovationInnovation generally takes place in male-dominated industries. A gender gap might therefore exist...
Female-owned enterprises Gender gap InnovationWorking Paper
Labour market polarization in South Africa: A decomposition analysisThere is evidence from developed countries that technical change affects not only the employment intensity of production, but also the occupational composition of employment...
Decomposition Labour market Polarization