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Imputation methods for adjusting SOUTHMOD input data to income losses due to the COVID-19 crisisThis note sets out two different methods on how to adjust incomes in the microdata underlying the standard SOUTHMOD models to reflect a sudden shock, in this case the COVID-19 shock, as done in the accompanying working paper by Lastunen et al...
Imputation Income Survey dataWorking Paper
Measuring earnings inequality in South Africa using household survey and administrative tax microdataOverall income inequality in South Africa is very high, and inequality generated in the labour market is a key driver of inequality...
Inequality Earnings Tax dataReport
How COVID-19 is affecting workers and their livelihoods in urban Ghana: Results from the GSPS-COVID panel surveyThis survey is a collaborative project conducted by researchers of the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) and the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), University of Ghan...
COVID-19 Survey data EmploymentBook Chapter
South Africa: The top-end, labour markets, fiscal redistribution and the persistence of very high inequalityFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Earnings Personal income tax Survey dataBook Chapter
Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries: The case of middle-income countries from the LIS databaseFrom the book: Inequality in the Developing World
Economic development Equality Middle-income countriesWorking Paper
Intergroup contact and its effects on discriminatory attitudes: Evidence from IndiaThe contact hypothesis posits that having diverse neighbours may reduce one’s intergroup prejudice. This hypothesis is difficult to test as individuals self-select into neighbourhoods...
Caste Slums IndiaResearch Brief
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
Trust in the time of coronaThe global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War...
COVID-19 Pandemic Survey dataWorking 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 HeterogeneityBook Chapter
Construction and public procurement in UgandaFrom the book: Mining for Change
Construction sector Procurement Natural resourcesPolicy 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 dataWorking Paper
Earnings and employment microdata in South AfricaTraditionally, analysts of the South African labour market have used household survey data to describe earnings and employment in the post-Apartheid period...
Administrative data Data sources EarningsWorking Paper
Taking stock of South African income inequalityWe synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa’s very high income inequality...
Earnings Personal income tax Survey dataWorking Paper
Construction and public procurement in UgandaAs it transitions to an oil-producing country, Uganda’s investments in infrastructure and physical capital will increasingly depend on the ability of the construction sector to respond to surges in demand and transform investment effort into ou...
Construction sector Procurement Natural resourcesWorking Paper
Top income adjustments and tax reforms in EcuadorTop income under-coverage in developing countries not only leads to downward biased inequality indicators but might also affect the ex-ante evaluation of progressive tax reforms...
Top incomes Survey data Tax dataWorking Paper
Empirical challenges comparing inequality across countries: The case of middle-income countries from the LIS databaseThis study presents new empirical results, using microdata from the LIS database, on development patterns in economic inequality for a set of countries that are less covered in the empirical literature, mostly due to the lack of appropriate data...
Economic development Equality Middle-income countries