Advanced industrial countries have been exhibiting a steady decline of the labor income shares in the last two decades. We explain this phenomenon by resorting to the old Stolper-Samuelson theorem. The conclusions concerning the impact of free trade on the income distribution are unambiguous in...

Introduction / Arie Oskam and Alison Burrell -- Turkey's economy and regional income distribution / Arie Oskam, Natasha Longworth, and Ayselin Yildez -- The institutional framework of Turkey and Turkish agriculture / Tugrul Temel -- Agricultural production, prices and trade / Natasha Longworth...

We analyze the effects of the expansions of the European Union on inequality over the period 1960-2005 using an approach based on individuals' lifecycle incomes. This allows us to estimate permanent incomes and consider the effect of both survival rates and different rates of economic growth....