Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20533 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1267
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
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.
Subjects: 
global income inequality
income distribution
inequality indices
JEL: 
N30
I30
D63
D31
C10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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