Since Aristotle, a vast literature has suggested that economic inequality has important political consequences. Higher … inequality is thought to increase demand for government income redistribution in democracies and to discourage democratization … how high inequality is, how it has been changing, and where they fit in the income distribution. Using a variety of large …

than at the bottom. Despite this, inequality in market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient increased over the …

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …

between migration and economic development and inequality. The literature review suggests that there are several channels … through which migration affects economic inequality between countries in one or the other direction. The net effects are an …. We undertake an empirical analysis and find that immigration has contributed to reducing inequality within the 25 EU …

Recent research on Nigeria indicates declining income inequality. In contrast, anecdotal evidence suggests that only … anecdotal evidence, and the limitation in how inequality was estimated in the past literature are the motivation for our … research. First, we consider if inequality decreased in Nigeria between 2010 and 2018. We then explore how changes in …

increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the lower end. Consequently, earnings inequality … having played a bigger role. Decompositions of inequality measures reveal that although the change in characteristics had an … inequality increasing effect, chiefly attributable to increased education levels, inequality declined because workers at lower …