, market development, labour absorption, and the Kuznets inverted-U path of inequality. The second is the economic transition …In this paper we describe the major trends in China's income inequality over the past 40 years and explain them as the … outcome of four interleaved stories. The first story is a standard development story characterized by structural change …

This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … characterized by rising wages across the board, but especially among those at the bottom of the wage distribution in each country … not entirely driven by changes in the wage structure across skill groups. Two-thirds of the decline in the variance of …

The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in …