Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the … in the 1980s and early 1990s, and the introduction of structural reforms like trade, capital, and financial …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe and the US, empirical estimates indicated only a modest contribution of trade … emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower … the unequal impacts of trade can manifest along different margins. Recent evidence from countries across Europe and the US …

inequality, while union density, trade openness, economic growth and social spending are associated with a decline in inequality …This paper investigates the impact of financialization and changes in corporate governance on income inequality for a … widespread, there has been little empirical analysis of the link between these phenomena and the rise in income inequality. Since …

To what extent can increasing inequality be explained by globalization? And if there is a connection, what if anything … can and should be done about it? This chapter begins with an overview of how conventional trade theory has fared in … predicting changes in inequality and how it has needed to be extended and expanded when, contrary to some received wisdom …