The paper presents a survey of the main theoretical schools approaching the determination of income distribution profiles. Since Adam Smith, classical political economy had its focus on the relations between functional income distribution and the development process, proposing that growth could...

This discussion paper presents a methodology to visualize the effects of various influences on the income distribution. The methodology, although not new, has become very popular in the past few years. It is the method of counterfactual simulations. In other words, it is the use of "what if …"...