From 1917 to 2012, donations by high-income households in the USA have moved inversely with income inequality. This … rising income shares when inequality increases. The negative correlation holds both unconditionally and after conditioning on … reduce, inequality across places over time …

post-1960 inequality measures. Our series improves upon the series of Piketty and Saez (2003), correcting for data … top income concentration from 1917 to 2020. The results indicate a more tempered rise in inequality in recent decades than …

A widely held view is that increasing globalisation and inequality are fostering support for populist actors … introduce the concept of spatial inequality, which describes the regional inequality within countries, and construct a measure … of public goods scarcity. I argue that the spatial inequality induced feeling of being left behind is positively …

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method allowing us to … inequality by increasing the income share of the top 20% in contrast to the middle class' share. The tax policy effect accounts … for up to 29% of the total change in inequality; its contribution increases up to 41% if we take into account behavioral …

, regardless of (non-)random assignment to social jobs and the level of income inequality, individuals in social jobs are only …

This Paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …