We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income … distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path … across the Russian regions, we test Acemoglu's (2008) proposition that oligarchic societies experience extreme income …

This paper provides a new data set of regional income inequalities within countries based on satellite nighttime light … regional income data are available. We subsequently use our estimation results for an out-ofsample prediction of regional … incomes based on the luminosity data, which allows us to investigate regional income differentials in developing countries as …

show that the distribution of resources is a major driving factor of ethnic income inequality and, thus, induces rent …

and age distribution across countries in a fundamental way. In this paper we focus on the income consequences of these … changes for the global income distribution. Key in this respect are changes in the so-called demographic dividend associated … demographic dividend to income projections. Our findings are as follows. First, show that historically the impact of demography on …

income" concept and similar series. We find that the guide to its construction appearing on the WB data portal to be sketchy … exchange rate during the interim period. The latter feature injects an element of randomness in the resulting income concept to …. Consequently, we recommend replacing the market rate by its "smoothed" version to render the resulting income series more reliable. …

increase regional inequality in low and middle income countries, while there are no negative redistributional consequences in … high income economies. The analysis also shows that the observable higher mobility of individuals in high developed …