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 …

This paper revisits the inequality-growth relationship accounting for sectoral differences and focusing on US counties … depends on regional income inequality and a number of control variables. Spatial econometrics techniques are used to account … inequality for the Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting sector and the Real Estate, Rental and Leasing sector. However …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … market. This paper argues that the sources of inequality, not just the level of inequality, determine the equilibrium degree … of monogamy or polygamy. In particular, when inequality is determined more by disparities in human capital versus non …

This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition …. In particular, if the observed wage inequality response to price and technology shocks reflects a short-run response in … observed increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies …

inequality within the firm, which is found to be independent of the firm's hierarchical organization of workers, and only depends …

as follows: (i) a higher dependence on primary commodities reduces economic growth, increases income inequality, and … slows down the rate of human capital accumulation; (ii) the negative effects of primary commodities on growth, inequality … the case of growth and inequality, the negative effect of primary commodities and the differences of the slope …

the output price. The model also brings forth an analysis of wage inequality within the firm, which is found to be …