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Content Inside: Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions Across Countries NSTITUTE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BUSINESS SCHOOL Accounting Household Income Distributions Across Countries By: François Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira and Phillippe G. Leite William Davidson Working Paper Number 478 February 2002 Accounting Income Distributions Across Countries 1 Keywords JEL Classification Codes Abstract: across distributions of household income. Going beyond the determination of earnings in labor markets, we also estimate statistical models for occupational choice and for the conditional distributions of education, fertility and non-labor incomes. We import combinations of estimated parameters from these models to simulate counterfactual income distributions. This allows us to decompose differences between functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares due to differences in the structure of labor market returns (price effects); differences in the occupational structure; and differences in the underlying distribution of assets (endowment effects). We apply the method to the differences between the Brazilian income distribution and those of the United States and Mexico, and find that most of Brazil#039;s excess income inequality is due to underlying inequalities in the distribution of two key endowments: access to education and to sources of non-labor income, mainly pensions. Bourguignon is with DELTA, Paris, and the World Bank. Ferreira and Leite are at the Department of Economics of the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro. We thank David Lam, Dean Jolliffe, Klara Sabirianova and seminar participants at PUC-Rio, IBMEC-Rio, the University of Michigan, the World Bank and DELTA for helpful comments; and Nora Lustig and Cesar Bouillon at the IDB for making the Mexican data available to us, ready to use. The opinions expressed here are