The Social Implications of Sugar: Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774

Abstract

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Always egalitarian? Australian earnings inequality 1870–1910

“…As such, the social table is a matrix, sometimes with separate columns by gender and location. Most recent uses dealing with inequality are: Milanovic et al (2011) using a large sample of 29 countries from Rome 14 to India 1948 (recently and modestly updated in Milanovic, 2018); Lindert and Williamson (2016) for the United States for the years 1774, 1800, 1850, 1860and 1870and Burnard et al (2019) for 1774 Jamaica. As we suggested above, in the absence of modern survey data or even tax data to construct Atkinson's top shares, we think social tables offer the best way to estimate earnings or income distributions.…”