complete adoption of more productive technologies. The issue of increasing income inequality in the process of technology … adoption opens up another direction for research. Specifically increasing inequality implies that distributive conflicts may … issues. Without any political considerations, taxes would leads to a reduction in inequality and convergence of incomes …

, evidenced by ad hoc assumptions of cooperative wealth maximization. By integrating the underlying structure of inequality with …

Surprisingly little is known about the impact of resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries. This … explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom. Under plausible conditions, we find that income inequality will … initial impact of the boom on inequality disappears. Using panel cointegration methodology for a sample of 90 countries …

This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the determinants of income inequality in Uganda. Over the past 10 years … contribution of each income source to overall inequality; (ii) Decomposition of consumption expenditure into subgroups in order to … examine the contribution of each subgroup to overall inequality using their between- and within-subgroup components, both …

Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and … development. This article uses a measure of income inequality derived from taxation statistics and a recently proposed method for … testing long-run Granger non-causality to examine the key determinants of Australia's inequality for the years 1970–2001. In …

2001, hereby controlling for cohort effects. Wage inequality has risen sharply during the 1980’s and early 1990’s and … transitory wage inequality and only to a lesser extent to an increase in permanent wage inequality. The transitory component of ….65 over a ten-year period. The constant wage inequality in the second half of the 1990’s is attributed to a slight decrease in …

This paper focuses on the decomposition of observed increases in UK wage inequality since 1979 into the component … causes of increased inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. …