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Wage inequality in post-apartheid South AfricaMuch work has been done on inequality in South Africa, but to date the literature that assesses the dynamic response of income or wealth distribution to economic policy actions is almost non-existent...
Income inequality Distributions heterogeneityWorking Paper
Measuring labour earnings inequality in post-apartheid South AfricaThis paper investigates the validity of household survey data published by Statistics South Africa since 1993 and later integrated into the Post-Apartheid Labour Market Series (PALMS)...
Income inequality Distributions heterogeneityWorking Paper
Welfare dynamics in India over a quarter-century: Poverty, vulnerability, and mobility, 1987–2012We analyse the Indian National Sample Survey data spanning the period 1987/88–2011/12 to uncover patterns of transition into and out of different classes of consumption distribution...
Intragenerational mobility Welfare dynamics ImputationWorking Paper
New imputation procedures in the measurement of inequality, growth, and poverty in BrazilThis paper develops a new imputation methodology applied to missing incomes values in PNAD. PNAD is the main Brazilian household survey, but it has no imputation...
Imputation Stochastic imputation InequalityWorking Paper
Labour income inequality in Mexico: Puzzles solved and unsolvedWe analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006...
Inequality Labour income Post-survey reweighting