One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn …

absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …

to be used by policy institutions, including in specific sectors like health and education. Indeed, it is argued that one …

This Paper constructs and analyses a long run time series for regional inequality in China from the Communist … Revolution to the present. There have been three peaks of inequality in the last fifty years, coinciding with the Great Famine of … integration in the late 1990s. Regional inequality in China in 1999 exceeds the level experienced at its peak in the Cultural …