offset furlough-induced income reductions. This creates wealth inequality but lowers the probability a furloughed worker …

. Monthly earnings inequality increased during the pandemic, and the key driver is income losses among low-paid individuals … dampened the inequality increase, but did not fully offset it. Annual total market income inequality, which also includes … capital income and taxable transfers, shows similar patterns of increasing inequality during the pandemic. …

This report analyses the economic consequences of the coronavirus pandemic and support policies using underutilized …, escalating income inequality. Policy simulations indicate government support measures mitigated wage income reduction and … unemployment rise, yet they contributed to income inequality under certain conditions. These results provide insight into the …

effect of the coronavirus crisis on household income and retirement wealth, households’ expectations about the recovery, and …

real income in the reforming country, while income inequality is reduced to a larger extent for sufficiently small initial … deterioration of terms-of-trade and a decline in both aggregate real income and inequality. …

fairness principles, namely equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty, into a joint measure of unfair inequality. Two … inequality. Second, average unfair inequality doubles when complementing the ideal of an equal opportunity society with poverty … debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se …

One of the main functions of public debt is to smooth taxes and spending over time. In the Covid crisis, the Maastricht …