Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Cross-country Inequality Trends*

I review the two most popular explanations for the differential trends in wage inequality in US/ UK and Europe: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labour market institutions prevented inequality from increasing. Although these explanations go some way towards accounting for the differential cross-country inequality trends, it also appears that relative ...

Economic Integration and Cross-Country Inequality: the European Experience

Education and Income Inequality: New Evidence from Cross-country Data

This paper presents empirical evidence on how education is related to income distribution in a panel data set covering a broad range of countries for the period between 1960 and 1990. The findings indicate that educational factors—higher educational attainment and more equal distribution of education—play a significant role in making income distribution more equal. The results also confirm the ...

Inequality and Suicide Rates: A Cross-Country Study

This paper tests whether economic inequality is related to suicide mortality. Using an unbalanced panel of 40 countries for the period 1947-2001 allows us to control for the effect of unobserved factors that may have an impact on suicide rates. Our results indicate that there is a statistically insignificant positive effect of inequality on the incidence of suicide. The latter result seems to b...

Economic Inequality and Electoral Participation. A Cross-Country Evaluation