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Income Inequality in South Korea, 1933-2022
janvier 22, 2024 | WID.world

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 ... Continuer la lecture

Inequality in lifetime earnings in France
janvier 16, 2024 | WID.world

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 ... Continuer la lecture

New article published in JEEA on wealth inequality in Italy
janvier 16, 2024 | WID.world

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 ... Continuer la lecture

The Long Way to Gender Equality
janvier 16, 2024 | WID.world

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 ... Continuer la lecture

Poland in the 21st century – one of the most unequal countries in Europe
décembre 26, 2023 | WID.world

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 ... Continuer la lecture

Intergenerational mobility in France
décembre 18, 2023 | WID.world

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 ... Continuer la lecture

Behavioral responses to wealth taxation: evidence from a Norwegian reform
décembre 18, 2023 | WID.world

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 ... Continuer la lecture

Inequality denial – A response to Auten and Splinter’s work on US inequality
décembre 14, 2023 | WID.world

Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman respond to Auten and Splinter’s paper published in November 2023 in the Journal of Political Economy, which erroneously ... Continuer la lecture

Inégalité de revenus au Canada – tendances et comparaisons régionales depuis 1982
décembre 12, 2023 | WID.world

Comment les inégalités ont-elles évolué au Canada depuis les années 1980 ? Y a-t-il des disparités entre le Québec et les autres Provinces ? Quelles ... Continuer la lecture