-household wealth and public consumption-in the context of the United States. Our findings suggest that the level and distribution of … economic well-being is substantially altered when money income is adjusted for wealth or public consumption. …

evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) Wealth inequality has … increased between 1984 and 1999; 2) the growth in wealth inequality has been associated with substantial declines in real … reduce wealth inequality; 6) changes in permanent income do not explain a substantial portion of the growing gap between low-wealth …

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 …

the world system in the 1980s, 1990s, and beyond. This article tries to close this gap by using latest (United Nations and … feminism that substituted patriarchic structures inherent in practically all world regions for much of the 19th and the early …

aggregate relations. This paper establishes a bridge between the aggregation and the inequality and growth literature by …, implying that increases in income inequality may be unambiguously associated with temporary increases in a country’s growth …-run effects of income inequality may suffer from aggregation bias if the temporary effects of the MLD changes are not considered …

main loser in the structural changes that affect the position of Europe in the 21st Century. The world system approach … world economy are dramatically shifting towards the Asia- Pacific region, and that the days of “Eurocentrism” are … outnumbered. Foreign savings become an important indicator of the center-periphery structure of the world system and its changing …

This article uses data from the 1998 European Union Household Panel to study economic inequality in Spain. It reports … data on the Spanish distributions of income, labor income, and capital income, and on related features of inequality, such …