What Drives Differences in Inequality across Countries?

Miguel Székely and Marianne Hilgert

No 1339, IDB Publications (Working Papers) from Inter-American Development Bank

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.

Keywords: simulation techniques; mating; fertility; household surveys; WP-439; income distribution; equality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D1 D3 J12 J13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000-11
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