This paper examines the trend in post-Apartheid earnings inequality in South Africa. By combining data sets, the paper … is able to analyze the trend for the whole period 1995-2004. Earnings inequality rose sharply during 1995-1999 and then … earnings inequality in the 1990s. Unemployment began to level off in the 2000s but remained at a high rate. An unprecedented …

Not only the colonial period, but also the pre-colonial times might have influenced later development patterns. In this … after adjusting for a number of potential biases. In addition, we find evidence on inequality in pre-Columbian times. Given … the low educational level and the high inequality reigning before the Spanish Conquest in the Andean region, we argue that …

development. A sustained improvement in wellbeing can be observed since 1870. The absolute gap between OECD and Latin America … contribution of life expectancy to human development declined. …

available online at University of Sussex, The Global Income Inequality Project. In Appendix 1 we offer a synopsis of the history ….Our final work is to model the progress of inequality, as reflected in Gini coefficients, 90/10 and 50/10 percentile ratios in … the region. We find that the bulk of the measured rise is inequality from the 1930s to the 1960s is due to changing survey …

This paper presents a new consistent yearly series of gross income (between-group) inequality Ginis for four … and middle decades, but in most cases inequality was on the rise in the 1960s.  There was also a tendency for narrowing … wage inequality in the middle decades of the last century - at the time of the Great Levelling in the developed economies …

development. A sustained improvement in wellbeing can be observed since 1870. The absolute gap between OECD and Latin America … contribution of life expectancy to human development declined. …

beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth …. Since then, inequality has generally increased possibly as a result of large-scale shocks such as macroeconomic crises and …

beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth …. Since then, inequality has generally increased possibly as a result of large-scale shocks such as macroeconomic crises and …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … series of data sets. Our focus is on both urban and rural inequality, as well as the urban-rural gap, with the objective of … summarizing several “first-order” empirical patterns concerning the trajectory of inequality through the reform period. We …