Surprisingly little is known about the impact of natural resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries … growth, to explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom. Under the condition that the nontraded sector uses … unskilled labor more intensively than the traded sector, we find that income inequality will fall in the short run immediately …

on migrant workers. Types of movement, profile of migrants vis-a-vis the natives, occupational distribution, and wages … in post-reform period push factors have strengthened. Though better-off states with lower incidence of poverty and higher …

Using a matched employer-employee database for Italy we look at the spatial distribution of wages across provinces …

countries such as Brazil, with already non-uniform distribution of economic development across regions, create geographical … distribution of impacts is such that the losers-to-be regions are those already suffering, then balancing measures are necessary to …