The last four decades have been marked by growing inequality. The inequality of income and wealth is one of the most … important macroeconomic issues of our time. Inequality contributed to Global Savings Glut and Global Financial Crisis through … factors, monetary policy, high leverage and the development of new money substitutes are critical in explaining the inequality …

Marriage is one of the most important determinants of economic prosperity, yet most existing theories of inequality …

question of how inequality affects the value of the multiplier. The proposed formulation is analytically derived from the … Lorenz curve of income by means of Zanardi asymmetry index. Since the relationship between inequality and multiplier is found … to be negative, it can be argued that greater inequality has depressive effects on GDP …

confidence in our methodology. We utilised the framework to model changes in the level of income inequality from the period just …, we found that income inequality fell in the early part of the crisis modelled in this paper. Much of this change was due … to rising inequality of market incomes, (even when discounting unemployment). This was due to the differential effect of …

distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … difficult to gauge the magnitude of the contribution this makes to income inequality. Variation in exposure to health risks … inequality. If material advantage can be excercised within the domain of health, then economic inequality will generate health …

This study uses five series of demographic and health surveys to answer the question: 'Is horizontal inequality in … education and wealth increasing or decreasing in the 20-year interval between 1991 and 2010?'. Horizontal inequality in … education attainment has been moving in waves; however, there was an invested U-shaped trend where inequality increased between …

This study seeks to add to the research on inequality in least developed countries, namely in Mozambique, by measuring … and mapping indicators of horizontal wealth inequality along geographic regions and ethnolinguistic identities. Using … census data for 1997, 2007, and 2017, we identify possible intersecting inequalities, measuring between-group inequality …

financial literacy and business ownership for the increase in wealth inequality between college and non-college households. …

Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …