In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …

Estimates of UK income inequality trends differ substantially according to whether estimates are based on household … top incomes in the latter, and provide improved estimates of UK inequality trends since the mid-1990s. We show there was a … marked increase in income inequality in the early 2000s that survey-based estimates do not reveal, and our conclusions are …

concentration is twice the level of income inequality: across the 28 OECD countries covered, the wealthiest 10% of households hold …

Inequality is anisotropic: its intensity is variable along the income scale. Therefore, to focus on local inequalities … coefficients able to summarize the shape of inequalities: a main coefficient, alpha, measures inequality at the median, and two …