@techreport{Heshmati2004World,
abstract = {This review covers a range of measures and methods frequently employed in empirical
analysis of global income inequality and global income distribution. Different determinant
factors along with quantification of their impacts and empirical results from different case
studies are presented. These results are further contrasted to those obtained based on the
World Income Inequality Database. A number of issues crucial to the studies of global
income inequality are addressed. These are the concepts, measurement and decomposition
of inequality, the world distribution of income and inequality measured at different levels of
aggregation: global, international and intra-national. We analyse income at each of the three
levels, discuss the benefit and limitations of each approach and present empirical results
found in the literature and compare it with those based on the World Income Inequality
Database. Research on the world income inequality supports increased awareness of the
problem, its measurement and quantification, identification of causal factors and of policy
measures to affect global income inequality.},
author = {Almas Heshmati},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {N30; I30; D63; D31; C10; 330; global income inequality; income distribution; inequality indices; Einkommensverteilung; Disparit\"{a}tsmass; Welt},
language = {eng},
number = {1267},
title = {The World Distribution of Income and Income Inequality},
type = {IZA Discussion paper series},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/20533},
year = {2004}
}
