Brazil is frequently portrayed as exhibiting persistent and structural economic inequality that is rooted in the early … inequality for 1905 in what is today Brazil’s largest state, using farm-level micro data for some 50,000 farms. Using these … measures of inequality, along with contemporary covariates and other historical variables I assess the impact of colonial …

sustainability challenges, such as rising income inequality, wealth concentration and growing carbon emissions. In this regard, an … and wealth, including land, industrial or financial capital) across individuals as well as between the private and the … and development: wealth redistribution. The prevailing approach generally covers income redistribution and the provision …

point we make two contributions. First we quantify the phenomena of poverty, richness, and inequality in housing comfort … mainly from complementary comfort and to a lesser extent from basic comfort items. Inequality in housing comfort, measured by …

the distribution of wealth between European countries, and (2) that patterns of wealth inequality differ strongly from … patterns of income inequality. Surprisingly high levels of wealth disparity were found in the social democratic welfare regimes …Past sociological inequality research focused on (labor) market outcomes, while neglecting the even more important role …

of social inequality on the activity of old people. Dissemination of new technologies and organizational forms allows …. Article aims to highlight the importance of inequality for the activity of the elderly and its relationship to social capital …

will focus on the city of Stockholm. Being capital of Sweden and city with strong economic and political background, the …

issue of equality. Stickiness of wage income with respect to parental income leads to persistence of income inequality …