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Reversal of the Kuznets curve: Study on the inequality-development relation using top income shares data

Tuominen, Elina - 2015

This paper uses recently published top 1% income share series in studying the inequality-development association. The … opportunity to study slow development processes. The empirical inequality-development studies have started to call into question …

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Capital Shares and Income inequality: Evidence from the Long Run

Bengtsson, Erik; Waldenström, Daniel - 2015

This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … income shares with a broader measure of inequality (Gini coefficient), the positive relationship re-mains but becomes …

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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today?

Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - 2018

In this paper the authors recall the history of Jubilee debt cancellations, emphasizing what their social purpose was at that time. They note that it would not be possible to copy that procedure exactly nowadays, primarily because most debt/credit relationships are intermediated via financial...

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Could/should Jubilee debt cancellations be reintroduced today? If not, what alternative measures of debt relief and redistribution might be possible?

Hudson, Michael; Goodhart, Charles A. E. - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 12 (2018) 2018-45, pp. 1-25

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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century

Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

Taxation data have been used to create long-run series for the distribution of top incomes in quite a number of countries. Most of these studies have focused on the national experience of individual countries, but we can also learn from cross-country comparisons. Comparative analysis is...

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Nineteenth century stature and family size: Binding constraint or productive labor force?

Carson, Scott Alan - 2010

here to be positively related with family size. The relationship between material inequality and heath is the subject of … considerable debate, and there was an inverse relationship between material inequality and stature. The paper also supports a bio …

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Health, income, and the Preston Curve: A long view

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2022

Well-being is increasingly viewed as a multidimensional phenomenon, of which income is only one facet. In this paper I focus on another one, health, and look at its synthetic measure, life expectancy at birth, and its relationship with per capita income. International trends of life expectancy...

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Capital shares and income inequality: Evidence from the long run

Bengtsson, Erik; Waldenström, Daniel - 2016

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Well-being Inequality in the Long Run

Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2018

This paper provides a long-run view of well-being inequality at world scale based on a new historical dataset. Trends … in social dimensions alter the view on inequality derived from per capita GDP. While in terms of income, inequality … increased until the third quarter of the twentieth century; in terms of well-being, inequality fell steadily since World War I …

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Epidemics, inequality and poverty in preindustrial and early industrial times

Alfani, Guido - 2020

economic inequality, has attracted the greatest attention. However, the picture becomes much more complex if other epidemics … affected inequality in health and living standards. …

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