News
Paraísos Fiscales, Wealth Taxation, and Mobility
Paraísos Fiscales, Wealth Taxation, and Mobility In this paper, David R. Agrawal, Dirk Foremny, and Clara Martínez-Toledano analyze the effect of wealth taxation on mobility
Read
Political conflict, social inequality and electoral cleavages in Central-Eastern Europe
In this paper, Attila Lindner, Filip Novokmet, Thomas Piketty, and Tomasz Zawisza analyze political conflict, social inequality, and electoral cleavages in Central-Eastern Europe the Czech Republic,
Read
The Distributional Impact of the Pandemic in the UK
The Distributional Impact of the Pandemic in the UK In this paper, Sinem Hacıoğlu Hoke, Diego R. Känzig, and Paolo Surico show that the top
Read
Inequality Transparency Index 2020
WID.world’s Inequality Transparency Index gives an overview of the challenges ahead to end financial opacity around the globe and of the difficulties faced by researchers
Read
Distributional National Accounts (DINA) for Austria
Distributional National Accounts (DINA) for Austria, 2004-2016 In this paper, Stefan Jestl and Emanuel List use survey data, tax data, and national accounts data in
Read
Global Inequality Data – 2020 update
The World Inequality Lab releases today a major update of global inequality data for 173 countries, making up 97% of the world
Read
What’s new about Income Inequality in Latin America?
Inequality in Latin America Revisited: Insights from Distributional National Accounts In this issue brief, Mauricio De Rosa, Ignacio Flores, and Marc Morgan describe their preliminary
Read
What’s new about income inequality data in Asia?
What’s new about Income inequality data in Asia? In this issue brief, Li Yang presents the evolution and decomposition of income inequality data in Asia
Read
What’s New About Inequality in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States?
What’s New About Inequality in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the US? In this issue brief, Matthew Fisher-Post highlights some new findings and long-run trends,
Read