The objective of this paper is to draw some inferences concerning the relative magnitudes of inequality in annual … wealth inequality as well as the overall contribution of these variables combined. A unique feature of this study is the …

From 2010 to 2019, personal earnings inequality declined in the United States (U.S.) for the first time in decades, yet … household income inequality continued to increase. Discordance between trends in personal earnings inequality and household … income inequality was greater than in any other decade in recent U.S. history. We introduce a framework to decompose …

top income concentration and inequality across the country's regions, macro-areas, and the recently introduced …

An individual’s inequality aversion (IA) is a central preference parameter that captures the welfare sacrifice from … exposure to inequality. However, it is far from trivial how to best elicit IA estimates. Also, little is known about the …

In this paper, I show that the trend in spatial inequality in Mozambique almost entirely explains the outstanding surge … in inequality in the country over the past decade, as well as its decline immediately after the pandemic, in contrast to … based on the Recentred Influence Function to estimate each area's contribution to inequality and a Blinder- Oaxaca approach …