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“How Much are the Poor Losing from Tax Competition?”
How much are European citizens losing from tax competition? Would they be better-off if European countries were able to have a common fiscal tool? In
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Compare your income to that of African citizens
The WID.world income comparator has been extended to all African countries based on the work done by Lucas Chancel, Denis Cogneau, Amory Gethin and Alix
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Top income shares for New Zealand extended to 2017
The series of top shares of fiscal income for New Zealand have been extended to 2017. The series have also been updated for 2016, due
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ERC Synergy Grant awarded to the project “Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts”
The World Inequality Lab is glad to announce that the project “Towards a System of Distributional National Accounts” has been awarded the ERC Synergy Grant
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New paper on income inequality in Africa, 1990-2017
This new paper by Lucas Chancel, Denis Cogneau, Amory Gethin and Alix Myczkowski makes a first cautious attempt to estimate the evolution of income inequality
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“Capital and Ideology”, by Thomas Piketty
“Every human society must justify its inequalities: reasons must be found because, without them, the whole political and social edifice is in danger of collapsing”.
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Revised national income and wealth series: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and USA
This paper by Luis Bauluz presents updated series of national wealth and of capital-labor shares of national income for the eight countries covered by Piketty
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New paper on urban elite transformation in China, 1988-2013
This new paper by Li Yang, Filip Novokmet and Branko Milanovic studies social transformations in urban China between 1988 and 2013. For the first time,
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Eighth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ)
From 3 to 5 July 2019, the World Inequality Lab hosted the Eighth Meeting of the Society for the Study of Economic Inequality (ECINEQ). This
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