between inequality and growth via growth and inequality shocks for two large economies, China and the USA, for the years 1979 …Understanding the relationship between income inequality and economic growth is of utmost importance to economists and …- 2018. We find that a growth shock is inequality-increasing, and an inequality shock is growthreducing. We also find …

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 …

United States (1921-2012) to estimate two Gini-like indices representing inequality at the bottom and the top of the income … to be mostly explained by an increase in inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, which more than offsets the … decrease in inequality at the top. The implication is that middle incomes gained relative to high incomes, but especially …

investigate perceived social position and income inequality in six different countries between the 1990's and 2000's in order to … inequality in perceptions. Consequently, the dynamics of perceptions can help explain, for example, the empirical evidence … with increasing inequality detected in some countries. …

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

We study the effects of macroeconomic shocks on several measures of economic inequality obtained from U.S. survey data … macroeconomic shocks on economic inequality depend on the type of shock as well as on the measure of inequality considered …. Contractionary monetary policy shocks increase expenditure and consumption inequality, whereas income and earnings inequality are …

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …

We conduct a review of the existing academic literature to outline possible links between climate change and inequality … inequality. Finally, while federal aid and insurance coverage can mitigate the direct impact of physical risks, their structure … research on the nexus between inequality and climate change. …

This paper analyses how inequality across counties in the United States of America has shaped the impact of the COVID …-level inequality at the start of the pandemic. The results show that more stringent measures to contain the pandemic were instrumental … in driving the incidence of protests, but only in counties with high levels of inequality before the start of the …