Blog
From the editor's desk: Focus on data
This month, a partnership between UNU-WIDER and the Groningen Growth and Development Center (GGDC) brings a new database on economic transformation...
Blog
Detecting global income inequality trends: And why it matters
by
Annalena Oppel
February 2021
More accurate estimates of inequality trends allow us to measure progress towards achieving reductions in inequality within and between countries...
Blog
How a data revolution in South Africa can help address gender inequality
In 2016, we joined a project in South Africa working to make tax data available for research purposes. Tax authorities collect an enormous amount of...
Blog
Why are workers getting a smaller share of the cake in Mexico?
by
Carlos A. Ibarra, Jaime Ros
February 2019
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...
Blog
Inequality: Driving forces and policy solutions
by
Carlos Gradín, Miguel Niño-Zarazúa
May 2019
The 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...
Seminar
Rekha Ravindran on the relationship between structural transformation and income inequality
Rekha Ravindran will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 28 October. Abstract - The relationship between structural transformation and income inequality in developing economies Though industrialization is postulated as the traditional way out of...
28 October 2019
UNU-WIDER,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 B,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Blog
Why is inequality in South Africa higher than in Germany?: Explaining income distributions with ‘decompositions’
by
Carlos Gradín
March 2020
The understanding of inequality requires the analysis of changes in income distributions across countries and over time as well as the identification...
Seminar
Ravi Pendakur on the impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities
Ravi Pendakur will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 8 November 2019. Abstract - The impact of federal modern agreements on income inequality in Indigenous communities In Canada, modern agreements allow Indigenous groups to govern their internal...
8 November 2019
Marina Congress Center - Baltica Meeting Room,
Katajanokanlaituri 6 ,
Helsinki,
Finland
Past event
Presentation
Conference session at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association conference
The changing nature of work and inequality project at UNU-WIDER will present recent research in a session at the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA-LAMES) Annual Meeting Bogotá 2021. About the session: The Changing Nature of...
21 October 2021
Online,
Finland
Past event