average per capita income of a given region, or country, is the first moment in the distribution of income, but what about the … evolution of the first two moments of the distribution of income, and so does the adjustment for inequality make important … differences in the evolution of average per capita income? The answer to the first two questions is yes, but to the third it is …

of recent developments in the distribution of wage and salary income and in key institutions and organizational … institutions in the last three decades, and the possible relationship between that transformation and the shifting distribution of … wage and salary income. The emphasis is on the United States and other advanced industrial countries, with some discussion …

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …

for which the long-run development of income inequality has been charted. Many countries have records of incomes, taxes … and social support. This paper presents a new methodology constructing income inequality indices from such tabular data …. Taking careful account of the definition of income and population and the availability of micro data starting in 1967, an …

How business cycles affect income-related distribution of diseases and health disorders is largely unknown. We examine … how the prevalence of thirty diseases and health conditions is distributed across the income spectrum using survey data … to analyze how income-related health inequality changed across time periods that can be described as a boom, crisis and …

implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a … determinant of income and labor market outcomes in the arts. Arguably, the IT revolution has changed the demand for certain skills … markets. Third, we touch upon the rise of online contract labor in certain creative professions as a determinant of income …

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large … income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about two-thirds of global income inequality, but noticeably less - around …

in both, the global distribution of income in the world and the global distribution of income in Latin America. Finally … American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century …. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income …