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A Wealth Tax for South Africa
A Wealth Tax for South Africa This paper, by Aroop Chatterjee, Léo Czajka and Amory Gethin considers the feasibility of implementing a progressive wealth
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Political Cleavages in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland
Historical Political Cleavages and Post-Crisis Transformations in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland, 1953-2020 In this paper, Luis Bauluz, Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano and Marc
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Wealth-Income Ratios in Switzerland
A Safe Harbor: Wealth-Income Ratios in Switzerland over the 20th Century and the Role of Housing Prices In this paper, Enea Baselgia and
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Homoploutia: Top Labor and Capital Incomes in the USA
Homoploutia: Top Labor and Capital Incomes in the United States, 1950-2020 Homoploutia describes the situation in which the same people (homo) are wealthy (ploutia) in
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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