Trends in Income Distribution in the Post-World War II Period: Evidence and Interpretation

Giovanni Cornia and Sampsa Kiiski

No DP2001-89, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Until recently, the literature on income inequality within countries suggested that trends in this area had remained stable over the last few decades, and that there is no relation between changes in inequality on the one side and domestic and external liberalization on the other. Against this background, our study reviews changes in within-country inequality over the last twenty years on the basis of an extensive review of the literature and of an analysis of inequality trends in 73 countries accounting for over four-fifths of world population and GDP.

Keywords: Econometric models (Economic development); Equality and inequality; Income distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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