How inequality is generated and how it reproduces over time? This has been a major concern of social scientists for … the only one. There is an increasing “inequality” throughout the world. Over the period 1960-2000, the richest 5 % of the … education, and there is an intimate connection between nutrition and poverty. The measurement of inequality is a highly …

After much empirical documentation of patterns of inequality, we address in this paper the need for a convincing … interpretation of the causes of inequality in advanced countries. We set the current debate in the context of the evolution of ideas … on inequality, including the debate on Thomas Piketty's book. We argue that four 'engines of inequality' can be …

disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …. In turn, had financialisation not increased after 2005, inequality would have decreased to its level in the early …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

by personal inequality, capital intensity and trade, while the Gini statistic is fueled by the falling labour share and … inequality, although financialisation is the most important factor in absolute terms. In the post-Great Recession years of tense …

for those at the bottom of the income scale? Will ARRA reverse the upward trend in inequality that we have seen in the … creation, ARRA is likely to have little impact on overall income inequality, or on the income gaps between relatively …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …