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Inequality across 700 years
Following the publication of Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century in 2013, there has been a growing interest in economic inequality and its
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New article published in JEEA on income inequality and taxation in Italy
The article “Reconstructing Income Inequality in Italy: New Evidence and Tax System Implications from Distributional National Accounts” by Demetrio Guzzardi, Elisa Palagi, Andrea Roventini, and
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Income Inequality in South Korea, 1933-2022
While South Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world in the 1960s, it sustained positive growth in the 1980s and 1990s until
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Inequality in lifetime earnings in France
How does inequality evolve over a lifetime? What are the differences in earnings between men and women over time? Cross-sectional measures of earnings inequality have
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New article published in JEEA on wealth inequality in Italy
The article “The concentration of personal wealth in Italy 1995–2016” by Paolo Acciari, Facundo Alvaredo, and Salvatore Morelli, has been published in the Journal of
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The Long Way to Gender Equality
What are the contexts and factors that enable or hinder gender pay equalization? What pathways have led to greater gender pay equality and where is
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Poland in the 21st century – one of the most unequal countries in Europe
Poland has experienced the fastest growth in Europe during its transition from communism to a market economy, with real average national income per capita more
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Intergenerational mobility in France
How much do our parents’ incomes determine how much we earn? Is there a link between how easily we move up the social ladder between
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Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform
Although only a few OECD countries currently tax wealth (Colombia, Norway, Spain, Switzerland), the academic and political debate on the complementary role of wealth taxation
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