empirically the impact of past major pandemics on robot adoption and inequality. First, we find that pandemic events accelerate …, while robots may raise productivity, they could also increase inequality by displacing low-skilled workers. We find that … following a pandemic, the increase in inequality over the medium term is larger for economies with higher robot density and …

Firms play an important role in shaping income inequality at the aggregated country level, given that wages represent a …, relying on firm level data to explore the implications for betweenfirms earning inequality in ASEAN5 countries over the period … market Gini. Our empirical findings show that capital account liberalization increases between-firms wage inequality, as …

dynamic measure permits us to focus on inequality as well as distinguish between countries where per capita income growth was …

This paper explores the impact of fiscal and labor market policies on efficiency, inequality, and fiscal outcomes in … inequality, the main exception being capital income tax cuts. A reduction of the minimum wage has an ambiguous impact on the … could improve overall efficiency, inequality, and fiscal outcomes, for instance if targeted labor tax reductions are offset …

poverty and inequality in India during the pandemic. We have three main findings. First, India has made significant progress … have temporarily increased poverty and inequality. Second, education and employment status seem to be the main factors …

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may havecontributed to increasing inequality in … high initialmanufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturingwage premium declined … between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it doesnot explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality. Instead …

which improves the standard Pareto criterion by keeping the degree of inequality, but not the absolute level of income …