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La première édition du « Global Inequality Research Awards » récompense Bina Agarwal et James K. Boyce
mars 8, 2024 | WID.world

L’étude des inégalités globales a connu ces dernières décennies un essor remarquable : inégalités économiques, sociales et environnementales ont fait l’objet de travaux théoriques et empiriques ... Continuer la lecture

Seventy-five years of measuring income inequality in Latin America
mars 6, 2024 | WID.world

Long considered one of the most unequal regions in the world, Latin America also has a rich history of producing statistics on inequality and poverty. ... Continuer la lecture

Political cleavages in Greece 1981-2019
février 7, 2024 | WID.world

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 ... Continuer la lecture

Inequality across 700 years
janvier 31, 2024 | WID.world

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 ... Continuer la lecture

New article published in JEEA on income inequality and taxation in Italy
janvier 22, 2024 | WID.world

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 ... Continuer la lecture

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