The changing shape of global inequality 1820-2000; exploring a new dataset

Review of Income and Wealth

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 279-297

  Van Zanden, Jan Luiten ^a   Baten, Joerg ^b   Foldvari, Peter ^a   Van Leeuwen, Bas ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic development; Inequality; Output convergence; World

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900298337     PISSN: 00346586     EISSN: 14754991     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/roiw.12014     Document Type: Article

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