This paper explores a simple though neglected mechanism linking land inequality and inefficiency: market power. In … to the model here explored the main effects of inequality are of a distributive rather than of a productive nature. The …

Apart from measuring inequality and poverty at the provincial level in Spain between 1860 and 1930, this paper … empirically assesses the relationship between economic growth and both inequality and destitution. The results, on the one hand …, confirm the presence of a Kuznets' curve. However, although growing incomes did not directly contribute to reducing inequality …

This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … income shares with a broader measure of inequality (Gini coefficient), the positive relationship remains but becomes somewhat …

This paper provides a long-run view of well-being inequality at world scale based on a new historical dataset. Trends … in social dimensions alter the view on inequality derived from per capita GDP. While in terms of income, inequality … increased until the third quarter of the twentieth century; in terms of well-being, inequality fell steadily since World War I …