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Exploring optimal taxation to tackle the regressivity of Italy’s
Income and wealth inequality have been steadily rising in most developed economies since the 1980s, driven by wealthier households earning higher returns on their capital.
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The local environmental and welfare effects of large industrial shutdowns in Germany
The clean energy transition and large-scale deindustrialization are transforming the industrial landscape of high-income economies, sparking debates over who will benefit and who will be
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Wealth and income inequality on the rise in preindustrial Southern Italy 1550-1800
Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies has only recently become the subject of systematic research. Southern Italy offers a particularly good setting for studying the long-term
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James K. Boyce’s inaugural GiRA lecture on inequality and the environment now available
On April 5, 2024, James K. Boyce, co-winner of the 2024 Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA), gave a lecture at Sciences Po Paris. In
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Inequality in life and death – how 1/3 of the population passes away leaving behind debt in Vienna
Despite the fame of Austrian composers Franz Schubert and Mozart, both passed away with minimal wealth, leaving their families unable to afford proper funerals. Two
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Rowaida Moshrif, new co-director of the World Inequality Lab
From September 2024, Rowaida Moshrif will become Co-director and Head of Data of the WIL. This new role reflects the pivotal function that she has
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New research uncovers key mistakes in Auten and Splinter’s estimates of US inequality
Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman fleshed out their response to Auten and Splinter’s paper published in the Journal of Political Economy (2024), which
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The spatial dimensions of top income concentration and income inequality in Italy
The study of income distribution and inequality at the national and global levels has a long tradition in economics. Yet, detailed distributional estimates at finer
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‘Political cleavages and social inequalities’ now available in Greek
Who votes for whom and why? Why has growing inequality in many parts of the world not led to renewed class-based conflicts, and seems instead
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