Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/279246 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 10496
Version Description: 
This Version: August 2023
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning differentials reflect variations in productive traits, a significant component of the differences in income inequality across societies can be attributed to variation in societal interpersonal diversity, shaped during the prehistoric Out-of-Africa Migration. The roots of income inequality within the US population provide supporting evidence for the hypothesis. It suggests that variation in income inequality across groups of individuals originating from different ancestral backgrounds can be traced to the degree of diversity of their ancestral populations as was carved in the course of the dispersal of humanity from Africa.
Subjects: 
inequality
diversity
culture
out-of-Africa migration
JEL: 
D60
O10
Z10
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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