Zanden, Jan Luiten; Baten, Joerg; Foldvari, Peter; … - In: Review of Income and Wealth 60 (2014) 2, pp. 279-297
type="main" <p>A new dataset for charting the development of global inequality between 1820 and 2000 is presented, based on a large variety of sources and methods for estimating (gross household) income inequality. On this basis we estimate the evolution of global income inequality over the past...</p>