Do market-orientated economies with relatively large cross-sectional levels of inequality have higher income mobility … and therefore less permanent inequality? To answer this question, we introduce a formal representation of income mobility …

In seeking to understand inequality today, a great deal can be learned from history. However, there are few countries … for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such tabular data …

. Our study also points to the importance of universal child care programs in explaining differences in earnings inequality …

This paper documents, for the first time, municipality- and occupation-level estimates of income inequality between … withinoccupation income inequality. Across municipalities, income inequality is positively associated with manufacturing, average crop …, and historical land inequality, and is negatively associated with distance to the nearest city, pastoral agriculture, and …