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Beyond class conflicts: Exploring recent trends in world political cleavages
Why has growing inequality in many parts of the world not led to renewed class-based conflicts, and seems instead to have come with the emergence
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Political cleavages in Greece 1981-2019
Modern Greek history has been a turbulent one. The devastation of the Civil War (1946-1949) gave way to an ‘Economic Miracle’ in the 1950s and
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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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The wealth of generations
Since the 1980s, rich countries have witnessed an increase in wealth-to-income ratios, wealth inequality, and a boom in asset prices. Yet, little is known about
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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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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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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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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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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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