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Parametric Estimations of the World Distribution of Income
Pinkovskiy, Maxim - 2010
World Distribution of Income and estimate poverty rates, poverty counts and various measures of income inequality and … welfare. Using the official $1/day line, we estimate that world poverty rates have fallen by 80% from 0.268 in 1970 to 0 … of the global poverty count in 2006 are much smaller than found by other researchers. We also find similar reductions in …
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Up from Poverty? The 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery and the Long-Run Distribution of Wealth
Bleakley, Hoyt - 2013
these episodes to examine the idea that the lower tail of the wealth distribution reflects in part a wealth-based poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079754
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Poverty and Prosperity : a Longitudinal Study of Wealth Accumulation, 1850-1860
Steckel, Richard H. - 2010
This paper depicts and analyzes the wealth distribution and wealth mobility in a national sample of nearly 1,600 households matched in the 1850 and 1860 manuscript schedules of the census. Gini coefficients, a transition matrix, the Shorrocks measure, and a regression model of wealth...
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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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Global Inequality Dynamics : New Findings from Wid.World
Alvaredo, Facundo - 2017
This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world), with particular emphasis on the contrast between the trends observed in the United States, China, France, and the United Kingdom. We observe rising top income and wealth shares...
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Inequality Trends for Germany in the Last Two Decades : A Tale of Two Countries
Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2010
In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German unification (which happened politically in 1990 and in our...
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When Inequality Matters for Macro and Macro Matters for Inequality
Ahn, SeHyoun - 2017
We develop an efficient and easy-to-use computational method for solving a wide class of general equilibrium heterogeneous agent models with aggregate shocks, together with an open source suite of codes that implement our algorithms in an easy-to-use toolbox. Our method extends standard...
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Capital Accumulation, Private Property and Rising Inequality in China, 1978-2015
Piketty, Thomas - 2017
This paper combines national accounts, survey, wealth and fiscal data (including recently released tax data on high-income taxpayers) in order to provide consistent series on the accumulation and distribution of income and wealth in China over the 1978-2015 period. We find that the aggregate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957339
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Global Wealth Inequality
Zucman, Gabriel - 2019
This article reviews the recent literature on the dynamics of global wealth inequality. I first reconcile available estimates of wealth inequality in the United States. Both surveys and tax data show that wealth inequality has increased dramatically since the 1980s, with a top 1% wealth share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894436
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Economic and Political Inequality in Development : The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia
Acemoglu, Daron - 2010
Is inequality harmful for economic growth? Is the underdevelopment of Latin America related to its unequal distribution of wealth? A recently emerging consensus claims not only that economic inequality has detrimental effects on economic growth in general, but also that differences in economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759965