standard unified growth model. We measure inequality by the ratio between land rent and wages and show that, before the onset … of the fertility transition, technological progress increased inequality directly through land-biased technological … elasticity of substitution between land and labor is sufficiently high, the rent-wage ratio declines such that inequality is hump …

In an article published in Development and Change in 2011, I suggested an alternative measure of inequality to the Gini … article has evolved to become a further attempt at contributing to the literature on inequality and the statistics to measure … it. As in my 2011 paper, in this one I also conclude that if we want to understand why inequality is so unequal across …

belief and measures of wealth inequality, controlling for potential confounding factors such as patterns of spatial and cross …-pastoral societies that tend to sustain higher levels of inequality and where vulnerable material wealth plays a dominant role in the …

-1933 and using two alternative proxies for inequality -the percentage of non-family farms and the top income shares-, this … paper shows that, contrary to what many studies on the origins of the welfare state appear to implicitly suggest, inequality … countries that were previously more egalitarian, it seems that unequal societies were in a sort of inequality trap, where …