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 …

Despite a rich literature studying the impact of inequality on policy outcomes, there has been limited effort to bring …

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 investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … over the long run. Using a new historical cross-country database on capital shares in 19 countries and data from the World … Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run links between the aggregate role of capital in the economy and the size …

We use data from the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS) to compare measures of socioeconomic inequality in … months. Also, there was a systematic increase in total inequality in the Likert GHQ-12 score. However, measures of relative … socioeconomic inequality have not increased. A Shapley-Shorrocks decomposition analysis shows that during the peak of the first wave …

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

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 …

Using micro-data on six surveys - the Gallup World Poll 2005-2023, the U.S. Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System … the annual data from the United Nation's Humasn Development Index (HDI) nor data used in the World Happiness Report from … the Gallup World Poll shifted much in response to negative shocks. The HDI has been rising in the last decade or so …