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DARP Paper

Income Inequality Comparisons with Dirty Data: The UK and Spain during the 1980s

Frank A Cowell, Julie Litchfield and Magda Mercader-Prats

Inequality comparisons between countries and over time should take into account problems of data imperfection. We examine the contrasting experience of the UK and spain during the 1980s in terms of the distribution of di...Read more...

June 1999

DARP Paper

Education or Inflation? The Roles of Structural Factors and Macroeconomic Instability in Explaining Brazilian Inequality in the 1980s

Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Julie Litchfield

This paper investigates possible explanations for the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s. While the static decompositions of inequality by household characteristics reveal that education and race...Read more...

July 1998

DARP Paper

Growing Apart: Inequality and Poverty Trends in Brazil in the 1980s

Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Julie Litchfield

This paper analyses the evolution of inequality and poverty in Brazil during the 1980s, using a large repeated cross-section household survey data set. We calculate standard scalar measures of inequality and poverty, tog...Read more...

August 1996

DARP Paper

Income Distribution in Brazil 1981-1990: Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches

Frank A Cowell, Francisco H.G. Ferreira and Julie Litchfield

Using a newly available comprehensive micro-data set we examine changes in the shape of the Brazilian income distribution during the 'lost decade' of the 1980s. We adopt alternative parametric and non-parametric approach...Read more...

March 1996