framework to analyse how income inequality, besides other structural and policy-related features, shapes the trade-off between … inequality and poverty and that the magnitude of the change is larger in more unequal countries. Such a cumulative process shapes …

We build a Susceptible-Infected-Vaccinated Economic two-sector growth model to study the evolution of inequality in an … long-run inequality depends on the economic variable we use to build our inequality measure, on the infectiousness of the … disease, and on whether we address individual or group measures of inequality. Under our calibration, if the share of …

This paper extends the earlier work of Davillas and Jones (2021) on socioeconomic inequality in mental health, measured …

While inequality of opportunity (IOp) in earnings is well studied, the literature on IOp in individual net wealth is … and for a detailed decomposition of net wealth inequality into a variety of circumstances; among them childhood background … that about 62% of the inequality in net wealth is due to circumstances. The most important circumstances are …

This paper applies multidimensional affluence measures to a new dataset on income and wealth in 15 Eurozone countries …. We start our analysis by examining the income and wealth distributions separately for each country, and extend it to a … multidimensional setting by considering the joint distribution of income and wealth. The results indicate that, with the exception of …

This paper studies how wealth and health inequalities have interacted with the Covid-19 epidemic in a way that has … reinforced inequalities in income, savings, epidemic risk and even individual preventive behaviors. We present in more detail two … loosing their income because of contamination. Data on six countries confirm a disproportionate impact of the epidemic on the …

The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havocs on economies around the world. Yet, barely any evidence currently exists on …

Since the late twentieth century there has been a growing interest in academic and political circles on inequality. In … research about Inequality since the 1950s; (ii) the development of a new method of analysis that combines (ii-a) a quantitative …

our understanding on how economic and epidemic crises affect marginalized ethnic minorities and informs decision makers …