obtain measures for global inequality and poverty as well as global growth incidence curves. …

We analyze the effects of the expansions of the European Union on inequality over the period 1960-2005 using an … survival rates and different rates of economic growth. According to our estimates, inequality in terms of permanent income was … current income, inequality in permanent income would be one third lower. …

Economic inequality has increased in many EU countries in the last decades. Yet, efforts assessing economic disparities … to fill this gap, focussing on whether there has been convergence of income inequality among EU regions, and on to what … level of income inequality, so becoming equally more unequal. Second, this process is significantly faster when regions …