This paper carries out a time series analysis of the Gini coefficient for disposable income in a sample that includes both advanced and emerging economies. Our results show that inequality has alternated between stationary and nonstationary regimes during the period 1960-2017 in most countries....

This paper studies the relationship between horizontal inequality and conflict onset. With this aim, zero-inflated regression models are applied to measures of inequality across ethnic groups. Our results show that horizontal inequality is directly and significantly related to the emergence of...

This paper studies the long-run persistence of inequality in the U.S. With this aim, both income and wealth inequality measures covering the period from 1870 to 2019 have been analyzed. The persistent character of inequality has been assessed using unit root and structural break tests for time...