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dc.contributor.authorModalsli, Jørgen Heibøen
dc.date.accessioned2011-07-01T08:42:21Z-
dc.date.available2011-07-01T08:42:21Z-
dc.date.issued2011-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/47275-
dc.description.abstractIncome distribution data from before the Industrial Revolution usually comes in the shape of social tables: inventories of a range of social groups and their mean incomes. These are frequently reported without adjusting for within-group income dispersion, leading to a systematic downward bias in the reporting of pre-industrial inequality. This paper suggests a correction method, and applies it to an existing collection of twenty-five social tables, from Rome in AD 1 to India in 1947. The corrections, using a variety of assumptions on within-group dispersion, lead to substantial increases in the Gini coeffcients. Combining the inequality levels with data on GDP, a robust positive relationship between income inequality and economic growth is confirmed. This supports earlier proposals, based on fewer data points, of a 'super Kuznets curve' of increasing inequality over the entire pre-industrial period.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aUniversity of Oslo, Department of Economics |cOsloen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aMemorandum |x2011,11en
dc.subject.jelD31en
dc.subject.jelN30en
dc.subject.jelO11en
dc.subject.jelC65en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordPre-industrial inequalityen
dc.subject.keywordsocial tablesen
dc.subject.keywordKuznets curveen
dc.subject.keywordhistoryen
dc.titleInequality and growth in the very long run: Inferring inequality from data on social groups-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn655556168en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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