Population and Sample Selection Effects in Measuring International Income Inequality
The issue of world income inequality has been debated widely in the literature. At issue is whether inequality has, on the whole, been increasing or decreasing over time. I reexamine results from Firebaughs (1999) seminal article on demographic e?ects on inequality, in which he found a 30-year plate...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2015-08-01
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Series: | Journal of World-Systems Research |
Online Access: | http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/274 |