assessing inequality using the CPS ASEC data, it illustrates how valuable a multi-metric inequality analysis is by reconciling … some open questions regarding the trend in inequality and the role of the composition of income along the distribution, and … it provides a baseline assessment of the trend in earnings inequality for four distinct groups of income earners. The …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

modest increase in overall inequality of market incomes as measured by the Gini coefficient. However, we also document a … income inequality was stronger in East Germany than in West Germany. In both regions, the income concentration process …

Despite an improvement in overall macroeconomic performance in Costa Rica, income inequality has risen and is currently … significant progress in reducing inequality. This study analyses the drivers of inequality in Costa Rica by decomposing the Gini … coefficient by income source, finding that the main contributor to inequality in Costa Rica is labour income. In the period 2010 …

This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality … income shares with a broader measure of inequality (Gini coefficient), the positive relationship re-mains but becomes …

We study earnings and income inequality in Britain over the 25 years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. We focus on the … some decline in income inequality across the middle 90% of the distribution. In the past decade, key trends turned around …

One reason to be concerned about income inequality is the idea that people not only care about their own absolute …

We estimate income/expenditure inequality in Britain, exploiting five household surveys, spanning the years 1890 to … change in inequality among worker households over the period and that the three decades after World War 2 were probably the … low point of survey-based inequality measures in the eight decades since the late 1930s. Our findings are consistent with …

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …