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Structural features of the Myanmar economy through the lens of a 2017 Social Accounting MatrixBased on a recently constructed 2017 Social Accounting Matrix, we examine structural aspects of the Myanmar economy. The exposition ranges from industry, trade, household income, and expenditure to labour market issues...
Balance of payments Income distribution labour force surveyWorking Paper
A 2017 Social Accounting Matrix for MyanmarThis paper documents the compilation of a 2017 Social Accounting Matrix for Myanmar...
Balance of payments Income distribution labour force surveyWorking Paper
Explaining income inequality trends: An integrated approachIn large parts of the world, income inequality has been rising in recent decades. Other regions have experienced declining trends in income inequality...
comparative study Education Income distributionWorking Paper
Exclusive growth?: Rapidly increasing top incomes amidst low national growth in South AfricaDespite South Africa’s need for inclusive economic growth, we find that the income trajectories of the rich continue to diverge from the rest of the income distribution...
Top incomes Income distribution Tax dataJournal Article
Global inequality: How large is the effect of top incomes?Despite the growing interest in global inequality, assessing inequality trends is a major challenge because individual data on income or consumption is not often available...
Inequality Income distribution Top incomesWorking Paper
Agricultural development, trade, and income distribution: A 2015 social accounting matrix multiplier decomposition approach for MozambiqueThis paper considers the impact of agriculture and international trade development on income distribution and economic activity in Mozambique...
Agriculture Income distribution multiplier effectsBook Chapter
Unemployment, Employment and DevelopmentFrom the book: Asian Transformations
Labor Employment Economic growthJournal Article
The effect of top incomes on inequality in South AfricaThis article is currently available for early online view. South Africa exhibits extreme levels of income inequality and is ranked as one of the most unequal countries in the world...
Income distribution Economic inequality personal income taxResearch Brief
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Reducing inequalities in South Africa: Progress on equality thwarted by slow growth and success of top earnersSouth Africa has the highest rate of measured inequality in the world. Often thought to be a legacy of the apartheid system, inequality in South Africa has stubbornly persisted...
Earnings personal income tax Survey dataWorking Paper
How do human rights violations affect poverty and income distribution?The goal of this paper is to examine the impact of human rights on income distribution and poverty by exploring how both aid and trade can influence poverty and income distribution through human rights...
Global Human rights Income inequalityWorking Paper
The wage-setting power of firms: Rent-sharing and monopsony in South AfricaUsing administrative tax records from South Africa for the period 2011–14, I find that firm wage premia explain 25 per cent of the total wage variance, 60 per cent of the gender wage gap, and 40 per cent of the gap between workers in the middle...
Discrimination Firm effects Income inequalityWorking Paper
The distributional impact of structural transformation in rural India: Model-based simulation and case-study evidenceThe North Indian village of Palanpur has been the subject of close study over a period of six decades from 1957/8 to 2015. Himanshu et al...
Income inequality non-farm employment PovertyWorking Paper
The effect of real exchange rate volatility on income distribution in South AfricaThis study investigates the effect of real exchange rate volatility on the distribution of income between labour and capital in South Africa. Both symmetric and asymmetric effects are considered...
Functional distribution Income distribution Economic inequalityWorking Paper
Microsimulation analysis of the impact of indirect tax benefits on income distribution and poverty alleviation in Tanzania: An application of TAZMODThis paper analyses the impacts of indirect tax policy reforms on income distribution and poverty in Tanzania by applying a standard static microsimulation model TAZMOD v1.8...
Income distribution SOUTHMOD Tax-benefit microsimulationWorking Paper
Taking stock of South African income inequalityWe synthesize the findings from several recent papers on South Africa’s very high income inequality...
Earnings personal income tax Survey data