Global Income Inequality, 1820–2020: the Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality
Abstract In this paper, we mobilize newly available historical series from the World Inequality Database to construct world income distribution estimates from 1820 to 2020. We find that the level of global income inequality has always been very large, reflecting the persistence of a highly hierarchi...
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| Published in: | Journal of the European Economic Association 2021-12, Vol.19 (6), p.3025-3062 |
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| Language: | English |
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