This paper presents tests and estimates of the human capital model of income inequality using synthetic cohort data for Thailand: 1992–2011. The model focuses on four primary determinants of income inequality: mean per capita income levels, the variances in years of education, in the number of...

The Stock-Watson method and the dynamic Markov switching factor (DMSF) model are employed to construct macroeconomic composite coincident indexes for the Chinese economy, January 1990-March 2008. Four coincident indicators, namely, industrial production, investment in fixed assets, sales...