of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational … institutions in the last three decades, and the possible relationship between that transformation and the shifting distribution of … wage and salary income. The emphasis is on the United States and other advanced industrial countries, with some discussion …

survey data, this method is applied to a distribution of consumers representing the U.S. Examples of clothes washer standards … new standards. In some cases, sufficient data exist to distinguish among demographic subgroups (for example, low income or …

his paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national …, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth distribution among Chinese households. Our analysis indicates that the wealth … distribution in China as a whole became much more unequal in 2002 than it was in 1995. The housing reform, in which public …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around …

and the unemployed – serves not to undermine but to boost the overall income share of capitalists. And as employment … growth decelerates, the income share of the Top 1% – which includes the capitalists as well as their protective power belt … unemployment and zero job growth when these very processes serve to boost their income-share-read-power? …

After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear …

for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such data. The … methodology is applied to Norway, for which rich historical data sources exist. Taking careful account of the definition of income …

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …