cycle, of several dimensions of economic inequality, including wages, labor earnings, income, consumption, and wealth. After … distribution. Consumption inequality increased less than disposable income inequality, and tracked the latter much more closely at …

Although the empirical growth literature has yielded many findings on postwar convergence patterns, it has had little … to say about the determinants of convergence in earlier epochs. This paper investigates convergence for group of seven … countries during the period 1870-1914, the last great phase of global convergence before the present postwar era. A standard …

Standard neoclassical growth models rarely admits international factor mobility: convergence may result from factor … contribution of international factor flows to convergence in history. A general model with many goods, and multiple mobile and … historical analyses of the sources of long-run convergence and divergence. …