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| dc.title | What Drives Differences in Inequality across Countries? |
| dc.contributor.author | Székely, Miguel |
| dc.contributor.author | Hilgert, Marianne |
| dc.contributor.orgunit | Department of Research and Chief Economist |
| dc.coverage | Asia |
| dc.coverage | Europe |
| dc.coverage | North America |
| dc.coverage | Latin America and the Caribbean |
| dc.date.available | 2011-02-04T00:00:00 |
| dc.date.issue | 2000-11-01T00:00:00 |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper presents microeconomic simulation techniques to examine what drives differences in inequality across countries. The simulation decomposes cross-country inequality differences into the importance of individual decisions, such as fertility, mating, labor force participation, and household structure, while at the same time including information on the importance of different income sources. The decomposition is applied to household survey data from 35 countries from 6 regions in the world. The empirical results provide insights into the transmission mechanisms through which inequality is generated. |
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0010788 |
| dc.identifier.url | https://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/What-Drives-Differences-in-Inequality-across-Countries.pdf |
| dc.language.iso | en |
| dc.medium | Adobe PDF |
| dc.publisher | Inter-American Development Bank |
| dc.subject | Social Management |
| dc.subject | Income, Consumption and Saving |
| dc.subject | Poverty |
| dc.subject.jelcode | D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics |
| dc.subject.jelcode | D3 - Distribution |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J12 - Marriage • Marital Dissolution • Family Structure • Domestic Abuse |
| dc.subject.jelcode | J13 - Fertility • Family Planning • Child Care • Children • Youth |
| dc.subject.keywords | simulation techniques;mating;fertility;household surveys;WP-439;income distribution;equality |
| dc.type | Working Papers |
| idb.identifier.pubnumber | Working Papers |