Alvaredo, Facundo; Cogneau, Denis; Piketty, Thomas - 2020
In this article we assess income inequality across French and British colonial empires between 1920 and 1960. For the … Vietnam, which we compare to British colonies and dominions. As measured by top income shares, inequality was high in colonies …. Inequality between Europeans in colonies was similar to (or even below) that of the metropoles. In settlement colonies, the post …