During the last few decades, human dynamics, institutional change, political relations and
the global environment have become successively more intertwined. While increased global …

There is no shortage of theories that purport to explain why globalization may have adverse,
insignificant, or even beneficial effects on income and earnings inequality. Surprisingly, the …

A new dataset for charting the development of global inequality between 1820 and 2000 is
presented, based on a large variety of sources and methods for estimating (gross …

Economic rather than political forces appear to dominate inequality trends in Spain.
Inequality evolution fits a Kuznets curve. Wars increased inequality but had non-permanent …

Based on new datasets, this book presents an economic history of Indonesia. It analyses the
causes of stagnation of growth during the colonial and independence period, making use of …

This chapter provides a thorough survey of what recent international (ie, cross-country)
studies can tell us about the multiple causes of income inequality in the OECD area with …

In this paper, we revisit the question whether inequality in education and human capital is
closely related to income inequality. Using the most popular functional forms describing the …

We estimate inequality in Indonesia between 1932 and 2008. Inequality increased at the
start of this period but declined sharply from the 1960s onwards. The increase was due to a …

This chapter focuses on income inequality as measured by gross (ie pre-tax) household
income across individuals within a country. It builds upon a number of large-scale initiatives …

Deindustrialization, stagnant real incomes of production workers, and increasing inequality
are latter day features of many economies. It is common to assume that such developments …