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 …

Most evidence on the long-run evolution of income inequality is restricted to top income shares. While this evidence is … analysing inequality in the income distribution as a whole. This paper proposes a non-parametric approach for estimating … inequality in the overall distribution of income on the basis of tabular data from different sources, some in a highly aggregated …

Although the literature on emission inequality is abundant, this study will differentiate itself by focusing on … measures on emission inequality based on household characteristics as well as decompose it into sources of emission. Employing … emission inequality tends to decline until the middle quintiles but then further increases in expenditure level and worsens …

high growth, increased inequality, and the highest urban-rural income ratio in the world. Thus, the rural population, which …

substantial decrease in inequality among households with preschoolers, since the child care subsidies very much favour well …

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 …