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Extraordinary Wealth, Globalization, and Corruption
Torgler, Benno; Piatti, Marco - 2013
number of studies have explored empirically the determinants of extraordinary wealth. Using a large dataset we investigate … whether globalization and corruption affect extreme wealth accumulation. We find evidence that an increase in globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014158346
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Global Inequality and Global Inequality Extraction Ratio : The Story of the Last Two Centuries
Milanovic, Branko - 2009
Using social tables, we make an estimate of global inequality (inequality among world citizens) in early 19th century. We then show that the level and composition of global inequality have changed over the last two centuries. The level has increased reaching a high plateau around 1950s, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157602
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Global Trends in Relative and Absolute Wealth Concentrations
Goda, Thomas - 2014
This paper compares changes in relative and absolute wealth concentrations to establish if both processes have followed … similar trajectories. The findings indicate that while the level of relative wealth concentration has increased recently, it … is not extraordinarily high in an historical perspective. On the contrary, the level of absolute wealth concentration is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058863
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The Fiscal Origins of Comparative Inequality Levels : An Empirical and Historical Investigation
Irarrázaval G.H., Andrés - 2021
This research exploits novel evidence on current and historical inequality dynamics, as well as an instrumental variable (IV) strategy (founded on historical settler mortality à la Acemoglu et al.), to document the fundamental role of income redistribution through taxes and transfers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235206
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Does the shadow economy increase income inequality in the short- and long-run? : empirical evidence from Uganda
Esaku, Stephen - In: Cogent economics & finance 9 (2021) 1, pp. 1-20
This paper investigates whether the size of the shadow economy increases income inequality in Uganda. This paper applies the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach to cointegration, to test the long- and short-run relationship between the shadow economy and income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013183865
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The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2021
This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in empirical analysis of global income inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant factors along with quantification of their impacts and empirical results from different case studies are presented. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319092
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Data Issues and Databases Used in Analysis of Growth, Poverty and Economic Inequality
Heshmati, Almas - 2021
This paper focuses on the importance data issues to the analysis of growth, poverty and economic inequality. We introduce a number of major databases frequently used in applied research on growth, poverty and global and international inequality. A discussion of data quality, data consistency,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319096
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Top income shares in OECD countries : the role of government ideology and globalization
Dorner, Florian; Schinke, Christoph - 2018
countries over the period 1970 to 2014. We use top income shares of the World Wealth and Income Database (WID). Globalization is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794018
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The Long-Run Determinants of Inequality : What Can We Learn from Top Income Data?
Roine, Jesper; Vlachos, Jonas; Waldenström, Daniel - 2009
This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire twentieth century. We focus on three groups of income earners: The rich (P99-100), the upper middle class (P90-99), and the rest of the population (P0-90). The results show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212957
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Inequality Within Countries is Falling : Underreporting-Robust Estimates of World Poverty, Inequality and the Global Distribution of Income
Pinkovskiy, Maxim; Sala-i-Martin, Xavier; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Household surveys suffer from persistent and growing underreporting. We propose a novel procedure to adjust reported survey incomes for underreporting by estimating a model of misreporting whose main parameter of interest is the elasticity of regional national accounts income to regional survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512057