Inequality Around the World

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-1
Front Matter....Pages 3-3
Wages Around the World: Pay across Occupations and Countries....Pages 5-37
Australian Responses to Increases in Unemployment and Wage Inequality: Comparisons with the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States....Pages 38-59
Wage Indexation and the Evolution of Returns to Education in Italy, 1978–92....Pages 60-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Markets, Human Capital and Inequality: Evidence from Rural China....Pages 87-127
Inequality in Latin America during the 1990s....Pages 128-161
Inequality and Mortality during Russia’s Economic Transition....Pages 162-187
The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wage Inequality and Employment in the Formal and Informal Sector in Costa Rica....Pages 188-203
Front Matter....Pages 205-205
The Economics of Reciprocity: Evidence and Theory....Pages 207-233
Globalization and Redistribution: Feasible Egalitarianism in a Competitive World....Pages 234-267
Distributed Information and the Role of the State in the Economy....Pages 268-281