We argue that promoting education may be a means to reduceincome inequality. When workers of different skill levels …

-biased technological progress and use cross-country panel data on inequality and GDP to test these ideas. A one-year increase in the level …

methodology to the United States forthe period 1973-1991 shows that the rise in wage inequality duringthe eighties can be largely …

There is a vast literature on the selection of an appropriate index of income inequality and on what desirable … Gini) that poorly detect the extreme values present in the underlying empirical IDF. This paper introduces a new inequality … description of inequality inherent in empirical income distributions with extreme values. …