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Ravi Pendakur on the impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities
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Income and consumption inequality in China: A comparative approach with IndiaWe analyse income and expenditure distribution in China in a comparative perspective with India. These countries represent extreme cases in the relationship of inequality to both wellbeing indicators...
Income inequality Consumption Consumption expenditureJournal Article
Skills, personality traits, and gender wage gaps: Evidence from BangladeshWe use a recent first-hand linked employer–employee survey covering the formal sector of Bangladesh to explain gender wage gaps by the inclusion of measures of cognitive attainment and personality traits...
Gender gap Income inequality Cognitive abilityResearch Brief
Research Brief
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Inequality: Driving forces and policy solutionsThe many faces of inequality Measuring inequality isn’t as simple as it may seem. We know that since the 1970s global inequality has been falling in relative terms, but absolute inequality has been increasing over the same period...
Global inequality WIID Income inequalityPolicy Brief
Reducing inequalities in South Africa: Progress on equality thwarted by slow growth and success of top earnersSouth Africa has the highest rate of measured inequality in the world. Often thought to be a legacy of the apartheid system, inequality in South Africa has stubbornly persisted...
Earnings personal income tax Survey dataPolicy Brief
Inequality in Brazil: Inclusive growth trend of this millennium is overAfter three decades of persistently high inequality, Brazil has been experiencing a downward trend since 2001, accompanied by a rise in household incomes. These trends lasted until 2014 when a major reversal took place on both fronts...
Income inequality Fiscal redistribution Household incomeWorking Paper
How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights...
Global Human rights Income inequality
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The wage-setting power of firms: Rent-sharing and monopsony in South AfricaUsing administrative tax records from South Africa for the period 2011–14, I find that firm wage premia explain 25 per cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the middle...
Discrimination Firm effects Income inequalityWorking Paper
The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India: Model-based simulation and case-study evidenceThe North Indian village of Palanpur has been the subject of close study over a period of six decades from 1957/8 to 2015. Himanshu et al...
Income inequality non-farm employment PovertyWorking Paper
Gender and the South African labour market: Policy relevant research possibilities using South African tax dataThis paper has three primary objectives...
Administrative data Employment GenderBlog
Why are workers getting a smaller share of the cake in Mexico?As with many other developed and emerging economies, in recent decades Mexico has experienced a long-term decline in the labour income share. In other words, wages have decreased compared with other sources of income such as capital income...
Income inequality Earnings inequality WagesPolicy Brief
Inequality dynamics in China: Income growth for the poor, but more for the richIn the late 1970s, China embarked on a major programme of economic transition and reform...
Welfare policy Social protection Income inequalityWorking Paper
What are the main drivers of Brazilian income distribution changes in the new millennium?After three decades of persistently high income inequality, from 2001 Brazil experienced a downward inequality trend followed by rising household income growth. Both movements lasted until 2015...
Income inequality Fiscal redistribution Top incomes