This article assesses two secondary data compilations about income inequality - the World Income Inequality Database … (WIIDv2c), and the Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIIDv4.0) which is based on WIID but with all observations …

-personal inequality. We speculate on the emergence of homoploutic societies where income composition may be the same for all, but Gini … inequality (how the composition of income between capital and labor varies along income distribution). Capitalism may be seen to … countries over the past 25 years, we show that higher compositional inequality is associated with higher inter …

witnessing a decline of inequality as measured by the Gini index, even if once accounted for the fact that inequality increased …In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … only a few exceptions, we compare the same inequality concept obtained from the same source in two different years in each …