Long-term trends in income distribution a global perspective

Thomas Obst

ILO Working Papers from International Labour Organization

Abstract: Provides a comprehensive overview of the development in income distribution and outlines its major long-term trends of 23 countries worldwide. These countries are clustered in four groups covering the core advanced, the Nordic, the emerging, and the least developed economies of the world. Applies different measures to analyse income distribution in three dimensions: national income, functional income distribution, and personal income distribution, ranging between 1960 and 2012.

Keywords: income distribution; wage differential.; economic disparity; national income; household income.; low income.; trend; répartition du revenu; disparité des salaires; disparité économique; revenu national; revenu des ménages; faible revenu; tendance; distribución del ingreso; diferencia del salario; desigualdad económica; ingreso nacional; ingreso de los hogares; bajos ingresos; tendencia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 p.) pages
Date: 2014
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