The OECD recently published a lengthy volume examining the causes of rising inequality in most wealthy countries over … the last three decades. This paper examines that study, finding that the OECD misses most of the story of inequality … most of the benefits of rising inequality were concentrated much further up the income ladder. In contrast to the OECD …

Social Security benefits will have the effect of increasing inequality. …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

Since the end of the 1970s, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in economic inequality. While the United … circumstances but is the direct result of a set of policies designed first and foremost to increase inequality. …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

-called “left-populist” governments, have failed to effectively reduce inequality in the 2000s and have only benefitted from high …