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"Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
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The world economy has become more unequal over the last two centuries. Since within- country inequality exhibits no … ubiquitous trend, it follows that virtually all of the observed rise in world income inequality has been driven by widening gaps … between nations, while almost none of it has driven by widening gaps within nations. Meanwhile, the world economy has become …
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Klaus Deininger and Lyn Squire have recently produced an inequality data base for a panel of countries from the 1960s to the 1990s. We use these data to decompose the sources of inequality into three central parts: the demographic or cohort size effect; the so-called Kuznets Curve or demand...
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experience in the Old World, the New World last century and a half …
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will be pleased to hear that it probably accounted for more than a third of the rising inequality in the New World and for … produced prior to World War I were at least partly responsible for the interwar retreat from globalization. Will the world …
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Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as unequal as they are today? For want of sufficient data, these questions have not yet been answered. This paper infers inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465096
The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the …
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