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CASEpaper

Accounting for cross-country differences in wealth inequality

Frank A Cowell, Eleni Karagiannaki and Abigail McKnight

This paper adopts a counterfactual decomposition analysis to analyse cross-country differences in the size of household wealth and levels of household wealth inequality. The findings of the paper suggest that the biggest...Read more...

1 March 2013

DARP Paper

Inequality Decomposition - A Reconciliation

Frank A Cowell and Carlo V. Fiorio

We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition methods can be reconciled with regression methodology used in the recent literature. We also highlight some pitfalls that arise from uncritical use of t...Read more...

April 2009

DARP Paper

Understanding Inequality Trends: Microsimulation Decomposition for Italy

Carlo V. Fiorio

This paper suggests overcoming some limitations of traditional inequality decomposition methods by developing a combination of Burtless (1999) and DiNardo et al. (1996), two different microsimulation methods for decompos...Read more...

February 2006

DARP Paper

Decomposing Inequality in Greece: Results and Policy Implications

Christos Papatheodorou

This paper investigates the extent to which certain social characteristics and personal attributes could help explain income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income ...Read more...

November 2000

CASEpaper

Low Inequality with Low Redistribution? An analysis of income distribution in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan compared to Britain

Didier Jacobs

This article is a comparative analysis of the sources of income inequality in four countries, namely Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the United Kingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures by population g...Read more...

January 2000

DARP Paper

Inequality in Greece: An Analysis by Income Source

Christos Papatheodorou

This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most signific...Read more...

July 1998

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

Workers or Employers: Who is Shaping Wage Inequality in Portugal?

Ana Rute Cardosa

An extensive micro data set matching firms, establishments and their employees, is used to study the determinants of earnings inequality in Portugal and its evolution from 1983 to 1992, with the Theil index, its decompos...Read more...

August 1996

DARP Paper

How much inequality can we explain? A methodology and an application to the USA (Now published in The Economic Journal, vol.105, no.429 (March 1995), pp. 421-430)

Frank A Cowell and Stephen P Jenkins

We develop two simple measures of how much inequality is explained by individual population characteristics or groups of characteristics, analogous to R2 in regression analysis. We investigate the measures' empirical imp...Read more...

May 1994