There has been a recent upsurge of interest in the relationship between income inequality
and health within nations and between nations. On the latter topic Wilkinson and others …

Income and wealth inequality rose over the first 150 years of US history. They rose in Britain
before 1875, especially 1740–1810. The first half of the 20th century equalized pre-fisc …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

As events highlight deep divisions in attitudes between America and Europe, this is a very
timely study of different approaches to the problems of domestic inequality and poverty …

European countries are much more generous to the poor relative to the US level of
generosity. Economic models suggest that redistribution is a function of the variance and …

This paper studies cross-country patterns of economicgrowth from the viewpoint of income
distribution dynamics. Sucha perspective raises new empirical and theoretical issues …

TRANSITION ECONOMIES Page 1 TRANSITION ECONOMIES POLITICAL ECONOMY IN
RUSSIA, EASTERN EUROPE, AND CENTRAL ASIA Martin Myant Jan Drahokoupil WILEY …

We derive the asymptotic sampling distribution of various estimators frequently used to order
distributions in terms of poverty, welfare, and inequality. This includes estimators of most of …

The title of this Presidential Address is chosen to highlight the way in which the subject of
income distribution has in the past been marginalised. For much of this century, it has been …

This paper examines the role of secondary data-sets in empirical economic research, taking
the field of income distribution as a case study. We illustrate problems faced by users of …