disclose the dramatic upward trend in inequality. On this basis, we estimate a two-equation model for the income distribution … labour share fall, while its increase in the 2000s prevented inequality from worsening three times more than it actually did …. In turn, had financialisation not increased after 2005, inequality would have decreased to its level in the early …

dramatic transformations in the past century. While Classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial …

countries. We construct measures of ethnic inequality combining ethnolinguistic maps on the spatial distribution of groups with … satellite images of light density at night. Ethnic inequality is strongly inversely related to per capita income; this pattern … holds when we condition on the overall degree of spatial inequality -that is also associated with underdevelopment. We …

industrial (waste water and dust) pollution. Auxiliary regressions show that conditional on income, northern provinces have lower … industrial waste water pollution; non-coastal and provinces with smaller secondary industry shares have lower industrial (waste … water, COD, and dust) pollution; provinces with smaller state-owned enterprises share have lower industrial COD pollution …

The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical …

for those at the bottom of the income scale? Will ARRA reverse the upward trend in inequality that we have seen in the … creation, ARRA is likely to have little impact on overall income inequality, or on the income gaps between relatively …

United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …