century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible …In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st …

This paper uses a matching method to provide an estimate of the nativity wealth gap among older households in Europe …. This approach does not require imposing any functional form on wealth and avoids validity-out-of-the-support assumptions …; furthermore, it allows not only the estimation of the mean of the wealth gap but also its distribution for the common …

wealth distribution. Life changing situations such as getting divorced or losing one’s job have a statistically significant …

with respect to wealth holdings and financial decisions. Immigrant household heads hold less net wealth than native, but … only above the median of the wealth distribution, with housing as the main driver. Immigrant status reduces the likelihood … worsened the condition of immigrants in terms of wealth holdings, home ownership, and financial fragility. …

An issue of interest in the literature that explores the drivers of inequality is the distributional bearing of tax and … judgements implicit in tax and transfer policy provides a fresh perspective on the evolution of income inequality and … redistribution; one that departs from the prevailing view that UK inequality stopped rising from the early 1990s. …

Expansion of the public sector and redistributive policies may reduce income inequality, but formal tests suffer from … income inequality and government size, measured as the government expenditure share in GDP. Using a novel instrument – the … the true role of the government in attenuating income inequality. The estimated relationship between income inequality and …

This paper explores the long-term effect of migration on economic inequality between the 28 EU member states, covering …