intersectoral income inequality, increasing the national inequality; this, in turn, prompts an intersectoral migration, which works … as an equilibriating mechanism, decreasing the inequality in due course. The theoretical predictions yield a recursive …

Surprisingly little is known about the impact resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries (Ross … growth, to explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom. Under plausible conditions, we find that income … inequality will fall in the short run immediately after a boom, and will then increase steadily over time as the economy grows …

policy may have contributed to the persistent growth in income inequality in Japan, as measured by metrics such as the Gini …