inequality. This essay assesses how the social sciences have gone abour this research task, thier main conclusions and what we …

affected the level of income and wealth inequality within Australian society. Although there is a general agreement amongst … researchers that there has not been a significant increase in inequality in regard to either income or wealth between the 1980s … and the 2000s, some researchers argue that earnings inequality has increased. There is also evidence of a mismatch between …

century, top income shares in Indonesia have been higher than in India, broadly comparable to Japan, and somewhat lower than …

countries, I find that there is a strong and significant relationship between top income shares and broader inequality measures … measures of inequality over periods when alternative income distribution measures are of low quality, or unavailable …

coefficient, but is exogenous to any behavioral response. Analyzing the effect of this redistribution index on inequality, I find … process further, I create a new class of tax redistribution measures, based on the S-Gini, which differentially weight effects … personal income. From a political economy perspective, I also find some evidence that more inequality leads states to implement …

We investigate whether changes in economic inequality affect mortality in rich countries. To answer this question we … use a new source of data on income inequality: tax data on the share of pretax income going to the richest 10 percent of …, the UK, and the US between 1903 and 2003. Although this measure is not a good proxy for inequality within the bottom half …

changing assortative mating patterns on income inequality. Evidence from theoretical and mathematically calibrated models … variables, we find some evidence to suggest that assortative mating has had an influence on the increase in income inequality in …

-biased technological change, social norms about inequality, and the internationalisation of the market for English-speaking CEOs. …