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Wage polarization in a high-inequality emerging economy: The case of South AfricaEarnings growth in South Africa displayed a U-shaped pattern across the earnings percentiles between 2000 and 2015, resembling wage polarization in the industrialized world...
Inequality Minimum wage recentered influence functionWorking Paper
Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in South AfricaThis paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the present day...
Structural transformation Inclusive growth South AfricaWorking Paper
Benign growth: Structural transformation and inclusive growth in ThailandBetween 1981 and 2017, real gross domestic product in Thailand grew at an average annual rate of 5.7 per cent. Agricultural output grew more slowly than industry or services, and its gross domestic product share consequently declined...
Inclusive growth Inequality Poverty reductionWorking Paper
Structural transformation, inequality dynamics, and inclusive growth in BangladeshThe Bangladesh economy has undergone significant structural changes over the last four decades. The share of agriculture in GDP has declined, while the significance of industry and service sectors has increased...
Bangladesh Structural transformation Inclusive growthJournal Article
The Determinants of Redistribution around the WorldThis study re-examines the determinants of redistribution in light of improved data and methods relative to earlier literature...
Cross-country analysis Growth InequalityPanel discussion
A UNU-WIDER special panel on inequality — measurement, implications, and influencing change
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Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in ChinaIn this paper, we analyse the relationship between China’s structural transformation and the inclusiveness of its economic growth...
Inequality Education MigrationWorking Paper
Shifting from deductions to credits: Unpacking the distributional effects of medical expenditure considerations in South AfricaThe recent National Health Insurance White Paper proposes redirection of medical tax credits revenue towards the financing of the national health insurance...
medical tax credit medical expenses tax deductionsWorking Paper
Kuznets’ tension in India: Two episodesDeveloping countries face a trade-off between the twin objectives of structural transformation and inclusive growth. This is the ‘developer’s dilemma’...
developer's dilemma India InequalityWorking Paper
The ethnographic approach to social mobilityThe ethnographic approach has much to contribute to our understanding of social mobility...
Ethnography Inequality MigrationJournal Article
Was Kuznets Right?: New Evidence on the Relationship between Structural Transformation and InequalityWe examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960–2012...
Structural transformation Inequality KuznetsJournal Article
Educational Opportunities in Indonesia: Are Factors Outside Individual Responsibility Persistent Over Time?This article is on early view/in press, available on open access. Not all sources of inequality in educational achievements are fair. But how strong and persistent is the burden of unequal opportunities that each person carries on in their life?...
Education Inequality education policyPolicy Brief
Unequal growth in Mozambique and the regionThere is an increasing interest in the analysis of economic inequalities in least developed countries...
Poverty Growth Unequal growthWorking Paper
Was Kuznets right?: New evidence on the relationship between structural transformation and inequalityWe examine the Kuznets postulate that structural transformation leads to higher inequality using comparable panel data for a large number of developing and developed countries for 1960–2012...
Structural transformation Inequality KuznetsWorking Paper
Involuntary migration, inequality, and integration: National and subnational influencesAcross the world, we observe different experiences in terms of inequality between migrant and ‘host-country’ populations. What factors contribute to such variation?...
Economic integration Horizontal inequality InequalityJournal Article
Global inequality: How large is the effect of top incomes?Despite the growing interest in global inequality, assessing inequality trends is a major challenge because individual data on income or consumption is not often available...
Inequality Income distribution Top incomes