wealth by exploring sources of inequality such as age, education, migration, borrowing ability, and societal systems … that while income inequality is similar to that of the United States (US), wealth inequality is barely one-third that of …This paper provides new empirical insights on the joint distribution of consumption, income, and wealth in three of the …

Is inequality largely the result of the Industrial Revolution? Or, were pre-industrial incomes and life expectancies as … inequality for 14 ancient, pre-industrial societies using what are known as social tables, stretching from the Roman Empire 14 AD … 1947. It applies two new concepts in making those assessments - what the authors call the inequality possibility frontier …

cost approach. The pros and cons of each method are discussed in the context of poverty and inequality analysis and it is …

In the 2000s, global inequality fell for the first time since the Industrial Revolution, driven by a decline in the … distributions, while the poorer deciles in rich countries lagged behind. Although within-country inequality increased in population …-weighted terms, for the average developing country the rise in inequality slowed down in the second half of the 2000s. However, like …

the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …In response to a growing interest in comparing inequality levels and trends across countries, several cross …

relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and … due to changes in average incomes. In contrast, the changes in inequality observed during this period are on average much …

and global levels. This paper analyzes how this education wave reshapes global inequality over the long run using a … of the world population. The findings under alternative assumptions suggest that global income inequality will likely …In developing countries, younger and better-educated cohorts are entering the workforce. This developing world …

-income countries, inequality has a significant negative effect on transitional growth. For the median country in the world that in 2015 …This paper estimates a panel model in which the relationship between inequality and gross domestic product per capita … growth depends on countries' initial incomes. Estimates of the model show that the relationship between inequality and gross …