Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty: Rich and Middle Income Countries

Salvatore Morelli, Timothy Smeeding and Jeffrey Thompson
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Timothy Smeeding: University of Wisconsin

CSEF Working Papers from Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy

Abstract: This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area of research. We examine the literature on post-1970 trends in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall income inequality, and inequality amongst those with top incomes.

Date: 2014-03-25
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Published in A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon (eds), Handbook of Income Distribution, Elsevier B.V., 2015, Volume 2A, pp. 596-693.

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