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What’s new about inequality in the Middle East?
WID.world released its 2022 annual inequality data update for the Middle East. The last decade was one of the most turbulent decades for the Middle
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What’s new about inequality in Europe?
WID.world released its 2022 annual inequality data update for Western and Eastern Europe. Our inequality data for Europe covers all countries of the continent since
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What’s new about inequality in Latin America?
WID.world released its 2022 annual inequality data update for Latin America. Inequality remains very high in the region and is underestimated in measures based solely
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What’s new about inequality in North America?
WID.world released its 2022 annual inequality data update for North America. Inequality in the United States remains at a dramatic level, one of the highest
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Worker Power, Rent-Seeking and Income Inequality in Canada: A Sector-Level Analysis
This paper develops novel estimates of income inequality at the sector-level in Canada and examines links between sector-level income inequality and different conceptions of power.
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Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism?
In this paper, Thomas Piketty and Li Yang combine national accounts, household surveys, fiscal data, wealth rankings and election polls, in order to provide a
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Wealth Distribution in Germany
Wealth and its Distribution in Germany, 1895-2018 In this paper, Thilo N. H. Albers, Charlotte Bartels and Moritz Schularick present the first comprehensive
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South Africa’s Post-Apartheid Income Distribution
South Africa’s distributive regime is striking to all who observe it. In this paper, Adam Aboobaker situates developments in post-apartheid income distribution within key macroeconomic
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The Inequality (or the Growth) We Measure. Data Gaps and the Distribution of Incomes
There is a large gap between income estimates used in inequality studies and macroeconomic statistics. This makes it hard to assess how economic growth
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