This paper explores how support for radical right populist parties may be shaped by new measures of deprivation and … calculating a given decile's gains relative to the gains of other deciles. The paper argues that such positional measures capture … drivers of economic resentment relevant to radical-right populism. First, radical right populism is more likely among …

Many countries in the Western hemisphere are currently experiencing a backlash against globalization. Most of the … drivers of the backlash. Doing so, the discussion has primarily revolved around the question whether and to what extend the … that income inequality is perceived very differently depending on openness to trade. The relevance of perceptions has wider …

The measurement of Inequality of Opportunity has attracted a lot of attention in recent years, despite of the fact that … it is very limited by the scarce availability of data on family background. In this paper we propose a method to overcome … this limitation, which consists of using another variable, widely available, as a proxy of socioeconomic origin: capital …

rise of inequality since the end of Communism. The top 10% income share increased from 23% to 40% and the top 1% income … groups. Over this period, top 1% has captured almost twice as large portion of the total income growth than the bottom 50 …

Recent work on inequality has examined either changes in the distribution of income or in that of earnings, without … examining how the latter affects the former. In this paper we perform a factor decomposition of income inequality in order to … assess the importance of earnings and income from other sources in recent changes in inequality. We examine data for 8 …

North America, increased by a factor of two. This represents a defining empirical trend: a rewealthization (from the French … repatrimonialisation) – or the comeback of (inherited) wealth primacy since the mid ‘90s. For the sociology of social stratification …, “occupational classes” based on jobs worked must now be understood within a context of wealth-based domination. In this paper, we …

In discussions on inequality in Africa, Mali often appears as an exception, being the country with the lowest level of … inequality in the West African sub-region. In this paper, we analyse the dynamics of inequality in the country and try to … understand the role played by the different sources of income. To do so, we use the LIS harmonized version of the 3 waves of the …

This article studies global distributions of capital and labor income among individuals in 2000 and 2016. By … constructing a novel database covering approximately the 80% of the global output and the 60% of the world population, two major … findings stand out. First, the world underwent a spectacular process of capitalization. The share of world individuals with …

This chapter argues income and wealth are two paramount gradational measures of social stratification. The chapter … wealth are essential for purchasing well-being. Second, I review the definition and measurement of income and wealth. This … section is particularly critical because one of my overarching themes is that measurement is absolutely essential to studying …