Decomposing welfare inequality in Egypt and Tunisia : an oaxaca-blinder based approach
Joint Authors
Abid, Yusr
Odonoghue, Cathal
Sologon, Denisa
Source
Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series
Issue
Vol. 2016, Issue 979-1073 (31 Dec. 2016), pp.1-26, 26 p.
Publisher
Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries Iran and Turkey
Publication Date
2016-12-31
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
26
Main Subjects
Topics
- Welfare economics
- Equality
- Poverty
- Income distribution
- Cost of living
- Economic equilibrium
- Accounting
- Measurement
- Mathematical models
- Tunisia
- Egypt
- Economic aspects
- Home economics
Abstract EN
In order to understand the main drivers of welfare inequality in Egypt and Tunisia, the present paper presents an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition approach used to decompose differences across distributions of household expenditures, based on counterfactual distributions in the two countries of analysis.
Taking Tunisia as a reference country, we find that changes in the expenditures structure and demographics are inequality decreasing.
Changes in the characteristics of the labor market has, however, no, or very limited, impact on inequality as captured by the Gini Index.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abid, Yusr& Odonoghue, Cathal& Sologon, Denisa. 2016. Decomposing welfare inequality in Egypt and Tunisia : an oaxaca-blinder based approach. Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series،Vol. 2016, no. 979-1073, pp.1-26.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abid, Yusr…[et al.]. Decomposing welfare inequality in Egypt and Tunisia : an oaxaca-blinder based approach. Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series No. 979-1073 (Dec. 2016), pp.1-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-689163
American Medical Association (AMA)
Abid, Yusr& Odonoghue, Cathal& Sologon, Denisa. Decomposing welfare inequality in Egypt and Tunisia : an oaxaca-blinder based approach. Economic Research Forum : Working Paper Series. 2016. Vol. 2016, no. 979-1073, pp.1-26.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-689163
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes appendices : p. 18-26
Record ID
BIM-689163