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Global Income Inequality, 1820-2020
Global Income Inequality, 1820-2020: The Persistence and Mutation of Extreme Inequality In this paper, Lucas Chancel and Thomas Piketty mobilize newly available historical series from
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Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong
Income and Wealth Inequality in Hong Kong, 1981-2020: The Rise of Pluto-Communism? In this paper, Thomas Piketty and Li Yang combine national accounts, household surveys,
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Top Income Adjustments and Inequality
Top Income Adjustments and Inequality: An Investigation of the EU-SILC In this paper, Rafael Carranza, Marc Morgan and Brian Nolan use the top income
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Contribution to Routledge’s handbook on the Middle East Economy
Facundo Alvaredo, Lydia Assouad and Thomas Piketty contributed to the Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy”, to be published on July 9th 2021. The
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Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies
Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020 In this paper, Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano and Thomas Piketty provide new evidence
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Developing countries in times of COVID: Comparing inequality impacts and policy responses
Developing countries in times of COVID: Comparing inequality impacts and policy responses In this brief, Tancrède Voituriez and Lucas Chancel explore the socioeconomic inequality
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Second World Inequality Conference – Call for papers
The World Inequality Lab is organizing the second World Inequality Conference (previously WID.world Conference), which will be hosted by the Paris School of Economics on
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The concentration of personal wealth in Italy
The concentration of personal wealth in Italy 1995-2016 Italy is one the countries with the highest wealth-to-income ratio in the developed world. Yet, despite the
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China’s pension system
Towards equity and sustainability? China’s pension system reform moves center stage In this paper, Li Yang reviews the latest development of China’s public
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