human capital inequality and technology adoption decisions. …

polygyny (multiple wives). Wealth inequality naturally produces multiple wives for rich men in a standard model of the marriage … market. This paper argues that the sources of inequality, not just the level of inequality, determine the equilibrium degree … of monogamy or polygamy. In particular, when inequality is determined more by disparities in human capital versus non …

heterogeneity and permanent shocks to skills. I find that a large fraction of life-cycle income inequality is driven by match … dynamics and investigate if recent increases in residual inequality are caused by an increase of the variances of permanent …, persistent or transitory shocks. My results suggest that underlying sources of increasing wage inequality are very different …

complete adoption of more productive technologies. The issue of increasing income inequality in the process of technology … adoption opens up another direction for research. Specifically increasing inequality implies that distributive conflicts may … issues. Without any political considerations, taxes would leads to a reduction in inequality and convergence of incomes …

, evidenced by ad hoc assumptions of cooperative wealth maximization. By integrating the underlying structure of inequality with …

Surprisingly little is known about the impact of resource booms on income inequality in resource rich countries. This … explain the time path of inequality following a resource boom. Under plausible conditions, we find that income inequality will … initial impact of the boom on inequality disappears. Using panel cointegration methodology for a sample of 90 countries …

This paper aims to deepen our understanding of the determinants of income inequality in Uganda. Over the past 10 years … contribution of each income source to overall inequality; (ii) Decomposition of consumption expenditure into subgroups in order to … examine the contribution of each subgroup to overall inequality using their between- and within-subgroup components, both …

Recent interest has been stimulated by the growth of income inequality in most developed countries during the 1980s and … development. This article uses a measure of income inequality derived from taxation statistics and a recently proposed method for … testing long-run Granger non-causality to examine the key determinants of Australia's inequality for the years 1970–2001. In …