Empirical essays on the economics of inequality, education and health Universiteit Antwerpen
The topic of economic inequality has received increasing attention in recent decades. We examine the issue of economic inequality through several approaches. First, we develop a new method to decompose the change of income inequality into a forward-looking and a backward-looking progressivity component. This methodology allows evaluating the economic development process based on the viewpoints not only of the initially poor, but also of the ...