This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID …. Long-run wealth inequality dynamics appear to be highly unstable. We stress the need for more democratic transparency on …

-acting force to the rapid increase in income inequality. Using a political-economy model where parties bargain over taxes and …

United States and Europe. The gender gap in research funding has closed at the National Science Foundation and National … Institutes of Health in the United States and substantially narrowed in Europe. Underrepresented minorities are less likely to …

relationship between the political influence of the two groups and the level of taxation, public investment, redistribution of …

The economics profession has made considerable progress in understanding the increase in wage inequality in the U ….S. and the UK over the past several decades, but currently lacks a consensus on why inequality did not increase, or increased … much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these …

range of micro statistics on income inequality, dynamics, and mobility. It has four key characteristics: it is built on …; it offers granular descriptions of income inequality and income dynamics for finely defined subpopulations; and it is … and presents a set of global trends in income inequality and income dynamics across the 13 countries that are currently in …