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 …

show that income inequality of reference group of husbands in age-regional cross sections can be a predictor of their wives …

reducing inequality. Educated workers in these countries have a much lower birth rate than uneducated workers. Assuming … incorporating this effect generates multiple stedy-state levels of inequality, suggesting that in some circumstances, temporarily … increasing access to educational opportunities could permanently reduce inequality. Empirical evidence suggests that the …

functionals of two income distributions (such as inequality or poverty measures) into shares due to differences in the structure … those of the United States and Mexico, and find that most of Brazil's excess income inequality is due to underlying …

between the magnitude of grievances (formulated here as the extent of inequality) and the likelihood of repression. The main … likelihood of repression might decrease. I investigate the relationship between inequality and the likelihood of repression in … generalized additive model with thin-plate splines (GAM-TPS). This technique allows for flexible relationship between inequality …

issues fromaccess to education and health services, consumption patterns, to the impact on poverty,inequality, and labor …

This paper focuses on the causes of increased wage inequality in OECD countries in recent years and its decomposition …. In particular, if the observed wage inequality response to price and technology shocks reflects a short-run response in … observed increases in inequality is substantially altered relative to a long-run factors mobile world. This conclusion applies …