inequality indices building on results provided by Ibragimov and Müller (Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2010), and … they and Midões and de Crombrugghe (Journal of Economic Inequality, 2023) evaluate its performance. We highlight a feature … inference for inequality indices. …

over time. Growth is sometimes accompanied by rising and sometimes by falling inequality. Applied economists have come to …, inequality rose in the United States and fell markedly in Brazil. …

Because finite sample inference for inequality indices based on asymptotic methods or the standard bootstrap does not … covering 1977-2018), while also modifying them to deal with weighted data and a large portfolio of inequality indices. We find …

We examine the (potentially nonlinear) relationship between inequality and growth using a method which does not require … used (nonlinear) parametric approaches - the economy first expands rapidly with a large decline in inequality, plateaus … when inequality remains relatively stable, and then decreases rapidly with a large increase in inequality. This novel …

Thirty years after the "Washington Consensus", is there a new policy consensus that addresses the problem of inequality … surprisingly, on what the actual levels of income inequality are, and there are common misperceptions about their trends. In policy …

on inequality and progressivity become substantially lower when payroll taxes are reduced, which is due to increased work …

Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might be … Surveys, to revisit the question of whether inequality is associated with economic growth and, in particular, to examine … whether inequality of opportunity - driven by circumstances at birth - has a negative effect on subsequent growth. Results are …

income and wealth inequality in five OECD countries using comparable household-level survey data. We focus on the dependence … social inequality than the traditional 'income only' approach. We find that cross-country variations in the dependence … parameter effectively accounts only for a small fraction of cross-country differences in a bivariate measure of inequality. The …

processes: reordering of the socio-economic position of urban neighbourhoods; changing levels of inequality between …