"There has been a remarkable upsurge of debate about increasing inequalities and their societal implications, reinforced by the economic crisis but bubbling to the surface before it. This has been seen in popular discourse, media coverage, political debate, and research in the social sciences....

Inequality and social exclusion receive considerable contemporary policy attention. In the field of international development, inequality - both vertical (between individuals and households) and horizontal (between groups) - is a core concern in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development....

The literature on the contributions to poverty reduction of average improvements in living standards vs. distributional changes uses only one measure of well-being - income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over different dimensions, we explore the role of average...

We study trends in income inequality across U.S. states and counties 1960-2019 using a mix of administrative and survey data sources. Both states and counties have diverged in terms of per-capita pre-tax incomes since the late 1990s, with transfers serving to dampen this divergence. County...

Using a macro panel of 31 European countries, this paper explores the hypothesis that cross-country differences in the exposition to the risk of poverty or social exclusion (as defined by the Europe 2020 anti‐poverty strategy) are strongly affected by countries' political, institutional and...

Ein Prozent der Weltbevölkerung besitzt über 50 Prozent des Weltvermögens IBM Tendenz steigend. 99 Prozent der Weltbevölkerung diskutieren und verzweifeln, handeln aber nicht. Soziale Ungleichheit ist für Anthony Atkinson, den weltweit führenden Experten, ganz oben auf der ?Agenda der...

As health care costs rise, so too does the importance of assessing their incidence, and factoring these costs into measures of post-government income distribution. This paper contributes to this assessment by calculating the effect of government policy on the distribution of income by adjusting...