Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the paperback edition -- Foreword to the English Edition -- INTRODUCTION. Globalization and Inequality -- CHAPTER 1. Global Inequality -- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 1. Detailed Evidence on the Recent Changes in Global Inequality -- CHAPTER 2. Are Countries Becoming...

Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literature overstate the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes, as well as the role played by regional differences in the observed inequality rise during the 1990s

The issue of measuring the relative importance of income factors in the distribution of household income is at the heart of studies of changes in income inequality. Usual decompositions methods mostly based on Shorrocks (1982) framework allow for a broad evaluation of the contribution of income...

This paper studies the mechanisms underlying the apparent stability of the income distribution in Taiwan. An original decomposition methodology based on micro-simulation techniques is proposed. Applied to the distribution of income in Taiwan since 1979 it permits isolating the respective impact...