inequality, focusing on the very top-the top 1, 0.1, and 0.01 per cent of the income distribution. The focus on the extreme top …

In this article we assess income inequality across French and British colonial empires between 1920 and 1960. For the … Vietnam, which we compare to British colonies and dominions. As measured by top income shares, inequality was high in colonies …. Inequality between Europeans in colonies was similar to (or even below) that of the metropoles. In settlement colonies, the post …

economies, which has coincided with an increase in intra-country income inequality, both within and between skill groups. This … article surveys the key mechanisms of the globalization-inequality relationship. Four strands of literature are reviewed … generate most of the observed facts on trade and inter-skill group inequality, but also between unequally talented workers …

This paper discusses the data limitations associated with the measurement of top incomes and inequality in the Middle … East, with special emphasis to the case of Egypt. It has been noted that high inequality might have contributed to the Arab … spring revolt movement. Some studies have argued however that measured inequality in Middle East countries is not …

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 …

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in household surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent and 42 …

This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since … the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by … coefficient of 0.447 underestimates consumption inequality in Mumbai; none of the ten investigated scenarios yields a higher …

In this paper, we estimate the recent evolution of global interpersonal inequality and examine the effect of omitted … top incomes on the level and direction of global inequality. We propose a methodology to estimate the truncation point of … individuals in hous6000 unehold surveys generate a downward bias in global inequality estimates that ranges between 15 per cent …

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 …

This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since … the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by … coefficient of 0.447 underestimates consumption inequality in Mumbai; none of the ten investigated scenarios yields a higher …