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Exploring optimal taxation to tackle the regressivity of Italy’s tax system
October 22, 2024 | WID.world

Income and wealth inequality have been steadily rising in most developed economies since the 1980s, driven by wealthier households earning higher returns on their capital. ... Continue reading

The local environmental and welfare effects of large industrial shutdowns in Germany
October 21, 2024 | WID.world

The clean energy transition and large-scale deindustrialization are transforming the industrial landscape of high-income economies, sparking debates over who will benefit and who will be ... Continue reading

Wealth and income inequality on the rise in preindustrial Southern Italy 1550-1800
October 17, 2024 | WID.world

Economic inequality in pre-industrial societies has only recently become the subject of systematic research. Southern Italy offers a particularly good setting for studying the long-term ... Continue reading

James K. Boyce’s inaugural GiRA lecture on inequality and the environment now available
October 10, 2024 | WID.world

  On April 5, 2024, James K. Boyce, co-winner of the 2024 Global Inequality Research Award (GiRA), gave a lecture at Sciences Po Paris. In ... Continue reading

Inequality in life and death – how 1/3 of the population passes away leaving behind debt in Vienna
October 7, 2024 | WID.world

Despite the fame of Austrian composers Franz Schubert and Mozart, both passed away with minimal wealth, leaving their families unable to afford proper funerals. Two ... Continue reading

Rowaida Moshrif, new co-director of the World Inequality Lab
September 9, 2024 | WID.world

From September 2024, Rowaida Moshrif will become Co-director and Head of Data of the WIL. This new role reflects the pivotal function that she has ... Continue reading

New research uncovers key mistakes in Auten and Splinter’s estimates of US inequality
July 31, 2024 | WID.world

Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman fleshed out their response to Auten and Splinter’s paper published in the Journal of Political Economy (2024), which ... Continue reading

The spatial dimensions of top income concentration and income inequality in Italy
July 9, 2024 | WID.world

The study of income distribution and inequality at the national and global levels has a long tradition in economics. Yet, detailed distributional estimates at finer ... Continue reading

‘Political cleavages and social inequalities’ now available in Greek
July 4, 2024 | WID.world

Who votes for whom and why? Why has growing inequality in many parts of the world not led to renewed class-based conflicts, and seems instead ... Continue reading