Dear Ngozi,

You may want to look at Fred Campano and Dominick Salvatore book "Income Distribution" Oxford Press, 2006 for a collection and illustration of techniques.

Good luck in you research.

I much hope that you find the following material useful

http://content.lib.utah.edu/utils/getfile/collection/etd3/id/2480/filename/2486.pdf

https://www.princeton.edu/~moll/dynamics.pdf

http://www.lisdatacenter.org/wps/liswps/386.pdf

Wow!!!...I got a blast of quality responses!. Thank you Singh, thank you de Sousa, thank you Ramrattan..and thanks to those who'll still respond...thank you, thank you all very much!!!

So glad to be on RG...my research is good to go!

Ngozi

...and thank you so much Amira Ahmed!... I'm so grateful!

Ngozi

Dear Ngozi ADELEYE 

Greetings,

Please find the attached file very related for your topic,

Best Regards,

...thank you, Faris!...I appreciate.

Ngozi

So many papers are listed as must read. It will be difficult for Ngozi Adeleye to read through. I myself checked the abstract or introduction of all papers (20 of them) listed by Harshvardhan Singh.  It is a well documented and organized list. I also looked into 4 books (introduction and table of contents) that Ivo Carneiro de Sousa cited. A theme like “political economy as applied democratic theory” seemed for me very attractive. Brendan Markey-Towler and John Foster’s paper “Understanding the causes of income inequality in complex economic systems” presented a very new view point towards the origin of income inequality. 

Many of them talk about globalization and its consequences. Although there are many important topics (globalization, growth, health, human capital with regards to internal inequality), one crucial problem is missing. Inequalities discussed by these papers and books are inequalities inside of a country. No one argue international income inequality and wage inequality between countries. 

It is a bit curious that international wage inequality questions are not mentioned at all, because Kaldor and Frank A. Cowell start from Ricardo. As Kaldor emphasized it, Ricardo thought that the discovery of the laws which regulate distributive shares is the “principal problem in Political Economy”. However, Ricardo is also the person who inaugurated a theory of international trade by the discussion of so called “comparative advantage”. Kang-kook Lee examines “the effects of globalization including international trade and financial integration on income distribution and poverty” and yet he does not argue international wage discrepancies. 

In the history of economics, there was once a period when many economists argued wage inequality between nations. For example, 1970’s, Emmanuel’s Unequal Exchange attracted many readers and arguments. What happened since then? 

There are many arguments concerning the relations between trade and wage inequality, but except a few exceptions, all argues inequalities within a country. See for example,  

Kurokawa (2012) A Survey of Trade and Wage Inequality: Anomalies, Resolutions and New Trends which is otherwise well documented survey paper below.

One possible explanation of this serious neglect or lack of consciousness of tne problem may be due to the non-existence of international economics (trade theory in particular) that can pose and explain the question. 

Trade theory from HOS to Gravity model, or New or New new theory of international trade does not explain the world wide and country to country wage inequality. However, a new theory has emerged as new theory of international values. Please read my recent paper (actually in a draft stage) below. Your comments are welcome. 

Article A survey of trade and wage inequality: Anomalies, resolution...

Working Paper The New Theory of International Values: An Overview

Hi Yoshinri,

Thanks for taking the time to pen this expose. I've noted the points and downloaded the attached papers. I'll read them and revert.

Thank you!!!😃

Dear Ngozi Adeleye,

I hope that your research is progressing and goes well.

Yoshinori 

Dear Ngozi,

let me add one more paper:

Hellier, J. (2013). The North-South HOS model, Inequality and Globalization. In Growing Income Inequalities (pp. 107-146). Palgrave Macmillan UK.

This paper shows us how economists tried to explain the effect of globalization on inequality.  This covers almost all variations in international trade theory. As a survey paper that traced the history of this trials, this is a very good one. 

Viewed from a different angle, the paper shows how HOS theory entered in cul-de-sac and repeating desperate efforts.

I have made a sereis of comments on this question in Dr. Tahsen Alqatawni's question "What are the pragmatic problems with Heckscher-Ohlin model?"

https://www.researchgate.net/post/What_are_the_pragmatic_problems_with_Heckscher-Ohlin_model

I met Hellier (2013) in this question page.

Chapter The North-South HOS Model, Inequality and Globalization

Bosede Ngozi Adeleye Following articles may be helpful for you.

http://home.uchicago.edu/sdurlauf/includes/pdf/Durlauf%20-%20A%20Theory%20of%20Persistent%20Income%20Inequality.pdf

https://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/default/files/jrf/migrated/files/inequality-income-social-problems-full.pdf

Thanks Hossin!

The IMF investigates the theories posited by Thomas Piketty regarding wealth and income inequality. I encourage a full reflection on the sometimes trivialized formula r > g as a cause if not a driver of inequality across the world.

Goes. (2016). Testing Piketty’s Hypothesis on the Drivers of Income Inequality: Evidence from Panel VARs with Heterogeneous Dynamics. IMF Working Paper, 16/160