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The Social Implications of Sugar : Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica C1774
Burnard, Trevor - 2017
This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of Jamaican standards of living and income inequality around 1774. To this purpose we compute welfare ratios for a range of occupations and build a social table. We find that the slave colony had extremely high living costs, which rose...
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The Distribution of Top Incomes in Five Anglo-Saxon Countries Over the Twentieth Century
Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2010
Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141780
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Inequality of Learning in Industrialised Countries
Micklewright, John - 2007
Within-country differences in educational outcomes are compared for a large group of industrialised countries. We investigate where inequality is greatest, the association between inequality in learning and average levels of learning, the interpretation of measured levels of inequality, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777983
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Top Incomes in Germany, 1871-2014
Bartels, Charlotte - 2018
This study provides new evidence on top income shares in Germany from the period of industrialization to the present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012909983
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An African Growth Miracle?
Rodrik, Dani - 2014
industrialization, seem to be operating at less than full power. If African countries do achieve growth rates substantially higher, they … will have to do so pursuing a growth model that is different from earlier miracles based on industrialization. This might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052685
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Slavery, Education, and Inequality
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2010
We investigate the impact of slavery on the current performances of the US economy. Over a cross section of counties …, we find that the legacy of slavery does not affect current income per capita, but does affect current income inequality …. Moreover, we find that the impact of slavery on current income inequality is determined by racial inequality. We test three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135634
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Distributional Consequences of Capital Accumulation, Globalisation and Financialisation in the US
Karanassou, Marika - 2013
In this paper we examine the dynamic contributions of capital accumulation, globalisation, and financialisation to the functional-personal income distribution nexus. We analyse the labour share under the prism of monopoly and frictional growth, and disclose the dramatic upward trend in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085470
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Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2014
Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070811
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The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World
Engerman, Stanley L.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2021
Most analysis of how the distribution of political power affects the patterns of growth has been confined to the late-twentieth century. One problem associated with a focus on the modern record is that processes that take place over the long run are not examined. We may all agree that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235270
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The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2002 : Evidence from Income Tax Statistics
Moriguchi, Chiaki - 2013
extremely high throughout the pre-WWII period during which the nation underwent rapid industrialization; (2) a drastic de …
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