labor can generate non-monotonic paths for inequality. …

consistent with several features of consumption data including (i) the substantial rise in within-cohort consumption inequality … (Deaton and Paxson 1994), (ii) the non-concave shape of the age-inequality profile (which the RIP model is not consistent with …

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to … whether the inequality of income has diminished within and between countries over time. Gini's generalised family indices … the results obtained to different degrees of inequality aversion and to different equivalence scales, taking into account …

penetration. Keywords: cross-section models, income distribution, inequality, international economic order, economic welfare …

international trade theory in its most abstract formulation implies that increased trade and foreign investment should make income …

We use CEX repeated cross-section data on consumption and income, to evaluate the nature of increased income inequality … and aggregate components, and estimate the contribution of each component to total inequality. The model we use is a … that taking risk sharing into account is important for the model fit; that the increase in inequality in the 1980s was …