aggregate relations. This paper establishes a bridge between the aggregation and the inequality and growth literature by …, implying that increases in income inequality may be unambiguously associated with temporary increases in a country’s growth …-run effects of income inequality may suffer from aggregation bias if the temporary effects of the MLD changes are not considered …

of approximately $550 per week. Income inequality within the total working-aged Mâori population declined, while income … inequality among employed Mâori was stable. An analysis of some of the key factors contributing to change in the income …

inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two … large data bases of wage inequality that have become recently available and a large dataset of average tariff rates all …-industry inequality in poorer countries (those below the world median income) and the reverse in richer countries. The results for inter …

in explaining such economic outcomes as inequality can lead to misinterpretations. Income should be adjusted for costs of …

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to … whether the inequality of income has diminished within and between countries over time. Gini's generalised family indices … the results obtained to different degrees of inequality aversion and to different equivalence scales, taking into account …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …

This paper analyses changes in the distribution of equivalised gross household income and income inequality in New … these factors on alternative summary measures of inequality over the period. We find that changes in household structure and … in the socio-demographic characteristics of households are the main factors contributing to the rise in inequality, while …