importance of “trade-induced horizontal inequality,” i.e. inequality brought about by trade shocks that occurs among workers with … the same level of earnings prior to the shock. While this type of inequality does not affect the income distribution, it … horizontal inequality and changes in the income distribution induced by trade in a data-driven way, we develop a characterization …

East Germany for men aged 20-60 rose by 118%, while various inequality measures indicate an increase in wage inequality of … 25 to 61%. This paper studies the causes of this growth in wages and the changes in wage inequality, the first two … growth and inequality change in East Germany. Most of the increases occur at the beginning of the transition. We compare our …

inequality across countries. We find that if inequality across countries is low, the extensive margin of trade between countries …

inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations …

In this paper, the method of deriving the parameter ε of inequality aversion from a parametric distribution of incomes … constant inequality aversion utility function and that incomes obey the generalised beta distribution of the second kind GB2(a …) interval. The mid-point εmid of this interval specifies inequality aversion of the median socialdecision maker. The maximum …