This paper presents new findings on global inequality dynamics from the World Wealth and Income Database (WID.world …. Long-run wealth inequality dynamics appear to be highly unstable. We stress the need for more democratic transparency on … Kingdom. We observe rising top income and wealth shares in nearly all countries in recent decades. But the magnitude of the …

There is a widespread belief that the COVID-19 pandemic has increased global income inequality, reducing per capita … inequality decreased. When countries are weighted by population, international income inequality increased, more in line with the … result of the pandemic is supported by comparing global inequality using IMF forecasts in October 2019 and October 2020 …

growing literature on wealth inequality across the world. Evidence points towards a rise in global wealth concentration: for …This article reviews the recent literature on the dynamics of global wealth inequality. I first reconcile available … estimates of wealth inequality in the United States. Both surveys and tax data show that wealth inequality has increased …

consequence, estimates based on survey data alone typically understate true levels of inequality. This paper presents new research …

that are not tested under current guidelines), is not well estimated in the literature because tests for the coronavirus …

performance we observe there even today. This paper argues to the contrary. Compared with the rest of the world, inequality was … believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy … this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post …

In this paper we first document inequality trends in wages, hours worked, earnings, consumption, and wealth for Germany … from the last twenty years. We generally find that inequality was relatively stable in West Germany until the German …, especially after about 1998. Disposable income and consumption, on the other hand, display only a modest increase in inequality …