This paper deals with the relationship between decentralisation, regional economic development, and income inequality … Western Europe has an effect on within regional interpersonal inequality. Second, whether this potential relationship is … decentralisation is associated with lower interpersonal income inequality, but as regional income rises, further decentralisation is …

the bottom 90%. Half of this inequality effect is attributable to gains of the 90th percentile over the 10th percentile … that explains movements of labour's share of income. What caused rising income inequality? Economists have placed too much …

reduce some forms of poverty and inequality but worsen others, so the net effects are unclear without empirical modeling … the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing … inequality, largely by boosting net farm incomes and raising real wages for unskilled workers in developing countries, and would …

Economists have long viewed recessions as contributing to increasing inequality. This conclusion is largely based on … data from a period in which inequality was increasing over time, however. This Paper examines the connection between long …-run trends and cyclical variation in earnings inequality. We develop a model in which cyclical and trend inequality are related …

In this article we characterize the evolution of inequality in hourly wages, hours of work, labor earnings, household … Presupuestos Familiares and the European Household Community Panel. Our analysis shows that inequality in individual net labor … in the unemployment rate have been key ingredients to understand this falling trend. However, the inequality reduction …

This paper studies the relationship between investor protection, entrepreneurial risk taking and income inequality. In … result, investor protection raises income inequality to the extent that it fosters risk taking, while it reduces it for a …

how income inequality changes with market size. …