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Class or Location? What Explains the Rising Tide of Absolute Global Income Inequality During 1850-2010?

Goda, Thomas - 2015

This paper is the first to decompose absolute global income inequality into its within-country class and between country-location components. The estimates show that until 1970 locational income differences were the main driver of absolute global inequality, whereas its recent growth can be...

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How Polarized Is the Global Income Distribution?

Roope, Laurence S. J. - 2018

The interest in the level of global inequality has surged in recent years. This paper complements existing estimates of global inequality by providing the first estimates of the level of bipolarization of the global income distribution. During 1975–2010, global bipolarization declined...

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Global distributions of capital and labor incomes : capitalization of the global middle class

Ranaldi, Marco - 2021

This article studies global distributions of capital and labor income among individuals in 2000 and 2016. By constructing a novel database covering approximately the 80% of the global output and the 60% of the world population, two major findings stand out. First, the world underwent a...

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The global inequality boomerang

Kanbur, Ravi; Ortiz-Juarez, Eduardo; Sumner, Andrew - 2022

In this paper we argue that the decline in global inequality over the last decades has spurred a 'sunshine' narrative of falling global inequality that has been rather oversold, in the sense, we argue, it is likely to be temporary. We argue the decline in global inequality will reverse due to...

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Trends in global inequality using a new integrated dataset

Gradín, Carlos - 2021

This paper presents preliminary evidence of the annual global income distribution since 1950 using a new integrated dataset that aggregates standardized country income distributions at the percentile level estimated from various sources in the World Income Inequality Database. I analyse the...

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Regional Income Distribution and Human Capital Formation - A Model of Intergenerational Education Transfer in a Global Context

Bartholomae, Florian W. - 2009

The demographic problems in developed countries are getting more and more important. Very low fertility rates especially among skilled individuals will soon become relevant for a country's economy. Also of importance is education of children. Since there is an increasing demand for skilled...

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Globalization and Income Inequality Revisited

Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

relationship between globalization and inequality in the transition countries including China and most countries of Middle and … characterize most advanced economies but are less developed in transition economies, may have moderated effects of globalization on …This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the …

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The Impact of Liberalisation and Globalisation on Income Inequality in Developing and Transitional Economies

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2021

This paper reviews changes in global, between-country and within-country inequality over 1980-2000 against the background of the shifts that occurred in this area during the globalisation of 1870-1914. The paper finds that recent changes in global and between-country inequality are not marked...

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Benefitting from globalisation and technological change in Australia

Sila, Urban; Hemmings, Philip J. - 2019

Australia has seen large rises in living standards over the last decades across the whole of the income distribution. Technological change and international trade have contributed to this success, but have also brought structural change. Some industries have declined, while others flourished....

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Comparing global inequality of income and wealth

Davies, James B.; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 2018

This paper is the first to compare global trends in income and wealth inequality this century. It is based on large income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini coefficient, inequality between countries accounts for about...

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