The Journal of Economic Inequality

2016 - 2025

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Volume 23, issue 4, 2025

Do late-life divorces produce greater gender inequalities? Evidence from administrative data pp. 989-1023

Léa Cimelli, Carole Bonnet and Anne Solaz

Moving up the social ladder? Wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries pp. 1025-1055

Kevin Pineda-Hernández, François Rycx and Mélanie Volral

How does predistribution affect redistribution? pp. 1057-1075

Ravi Kanbur and Matti Tuomala

Unequal inequality aversion within and among countries and generations pp. 1077-1088

Marc Fleurbaey and Stéphane Zuber

Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality pp. 1089-1120

Konstantīns Beņkovskis and Ludmila Fadejeva

The gender pay gap at the early stages of academic careers pp. 1121-1142

Iga Magda, Jacek Bieliński, Marzena Feldy and Anna Knapińska

Skating on thin ice? Exposure to poverty among Canadians pp. 1143-1172

Khan Islam, Murshed Chowdhury and Barry Watson

Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries pp. 1173-1196

Chiara Mussida and Dario Sciulli

Effect of regional disparities on national economic growth. A spatial panel data evidence from EU countries in 2000–2020 pp. 1197-1217

Lukasz Pietak

Enforcing ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ in the EU: what would it take? pp. 1219-1254

Silvia De Poli and Sofia Maier

Migrant wealth in Germany pp. 1255-1282

Rudolf Faininger and Svenja Flechtner

The asymmetric effect of US local oil and gas reliance on income inequality in the fracking era pp. 1283-1308

Friederike Seifert

The equity and efficiency effects of energy subsidy cost-recovery pp. 1309-1335

Harry Humes and Niall Farrell

Local inequality and crime: New evidence from South Africa pp. 1337-1385

Nicolas Büttner

What interaction between income inequality and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa? pp. 1387-1410

Siméon Serge Atangana, Fabrice Nzepang and Saturnin Bertrand Nguenda Anya

Education development and income inequality: evidence from China pp. 1411-1432

Xiaoshan Hu, Guanghua Wan and Congmin Zuo

Does return migration with government support drive county economic convergence? Evidence from migrant workers returning to hometown for entrepreneurship in China pp. 1433-1458

Shuxin Deng and Chaofeng Lyu

Volume 23, issue 3, 2025

Measuring distributional preferences: opportunities and challenges pp. 607-622

Frank Cowell, Erik Schokkaert and Benoît Tarroux

Inequality acceptance in China: fairness views, inequality beliefs, and policy attitudes in a socialist market economy pp. 623-636

Ingvild Almås, Caroline Bonn, Alexander Cappelen, Cornelius Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden

Does the Gini index represent people’s views on inequality? pp. 637-665

Gaëlle Aymeric and Brice Magdalou

Thinking about need pp. 667-693

Alexander Max Bauer, Adele Diederich, Stefan Traub and Arne R. Weiss

How information about effort and luck shapes altruism of social preferences: a survey experiment pp. 695-716

Begoña Cabeza Martínez and Koen Decancq

Preferences for redistributive justice: A participatory-democracy experiment pp. 717-747

O. Chanel, S. Luchini, M. Teschl and A. Trannoy

Specific egalitarianism? Inequality aversion across domains pp. 749-775

Joan Costa-Font and Frank Cowell

Measuring hearts and minds: A validated survey module on inequality aversion and altruism pp. 777-808

Thomas F. Epper and Ivan Mitrouchev

Fairness judgments about animals pp. 809-834

Romain Espinosa and Nicolas Treich

Misperceiving economic success: experimental evidence on meritocratic beliefs and inequality acceptance pp. 835-855

Dietmar Fehr and Martin Vollmann

Exempting agents from any burden sharing: A lab-experimental study on the distribution of a monetary loss pp. 857-879

Wulf Gaertner and Yi Li

Just cheap talk? Investigating fairness preferences in hypothetical scenarios pp. 881-907

Paul Hufe and Daniel Weishaar

How robust is the equal split? Transferable utility and three-person bargaining in the laboratory pp. 909-931

Noemí Navarro and Róbert F. Veszteg

Do social preferences explain health inequality aversion? pp. 933-956

Matthew Robson, Tim Doran, Owen O’Donnell and Tom Van Ourti

Equality of opportunity and the intergenerational transmission of lifestyles: some normative implications pp. 957-975

Nicolás Silva-Illanes and Aki Tsuchiya

Review: The Escape from Poverty: Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage, by Olivier De Schutter, Hugh Frazer, Anne-Catherine Guio and Eric Marlier pp. 977-979

Guido Neidhöfer

Review: Hierarchy of needs and the measurement of poverty and standards of living by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber pp. 981-984

Daniel Gerszon Mahler

Review: Economics in America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequality, by Angus Deaton pp. 985-987

Lucinda Platt

Volume 23, issue 2, 2025

Inequality perception and preferences globally and locally - correlational evidence from a large-scale cross-country survey pp. 303-326

Attila Gáspár, Carmen Cervone, Federica Durante, Anne Maass, Caterina Suitner, Roberta Rosa Valtorta and Michela Vezzoli

When perception shapes reality: Effects of perceived income inequality and social mobility on affective polarization pp. 327-347

Lion Merten and Jana Niedringhaus

Social gradients in employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic pp. 349-370

Annette Alstadsæter, Bernt Bratsberg, Simen Markussen, Oddbjørn Raaum and Knut Røed

Projecting the impact of COVID-19 on education and intergenerational mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa pp. 371-396

Guido Neidhöfer, Nora Lustig and Patricio Larroulet

Wealth at birth and its effect on child academic achievement and behavioral problems pp. 397-431

Luis Faundez and Robert Kaestner

Electoral cycles in inequality pp. 433-456

Can Sever and Emekcan Yücel

Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour pp. 457-481

Paul Segal and Michail Moatsos

What explains recent trends in income inequality in the European Union? pp. 483-505

Stefano Filauro, Zachary Parolin and Pietro Valetto

Understanding the role of inequality of opportunity in body mass index and waist circumference among Mexican adults pp. 507-528

Andrea Salas-Ortiz

The most likeable soccer players and the least likeable hockey players are in greater demand pp. 529-548

Vojtěch Kotrba, Mirka Strnadová, Luis F. Martinez and Pedro Brinca

The two-sample two-stage least squares method to estimate the intergenerational earnings elasticity pp. 549-570

Javier Cortes Orihuela, Juan D. Díaz, Pablo Gutiérrez Cubillos and Pablo Troncoso

Characterising life-cycle dynamics of annual days of work, wages, and cross-covariances pp. 571-604

Koray Aktaş

Correction to: Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany pp. 605-605

Luna Bellani, Andrea Fazio and Francesco Scervini

Volume 23, issue 1, 2025

The shape of the wealth distribution and differences in wealth inequality across Euro area countries pp. 1-25

Martin Biewen, Stefan Glaisner and Rolf Kleimann

Distributional national accounts for Australia, 1991–2018 pp. 27-42

Matthew Fisher-Post, Nicolas Hérault and Roger Wilkins

What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics pp. 43-69

Stephan Klasen, Thomas Kneib, Maria C. Lo Bue and Vincenzo Prete

Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach pp. 71-89

Asis Kumar Banerjee

Greater wealth, greater uncertainty: Changes in racial inequality in the Survey of Consumer Finances pp. 91-118

Aditya Aladangady, Andrew C. Chang and Jacob Krimmel

The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland pp. 119-142

Simone Arrigoni, Laura Boyd and Tara McIndoe-Calder

Functional distribution, personal income inequality, and top shares of income: do social classes still matter? pp. 143-176

Luca Giangregorio and Davide Villani

When government’s economic ideology shapes income redistribution. Empirical evidence from the OECD pp. 177-204

Juan Román-Aso, Héctor Bellido and Lorena Olmos

Fairness with unequal productive skills among other-regarding individuals pp. 205-226

Aitor Calo-Blanco

Central bank independence, income inequality and poverty: What do the data say? pp. 227-246

Jan-Egbert Sturm, Cristina Bodea, Jakob de Haan and Raymond Hicks

On the effectiveness of quasi-universal transfers to older households: the case of Poland pp. 247-277

Aleksandra Kolasa

A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of multidimensional relative poverty alleviation efforts in China pp. 279-302

Di Zhou, Tingting Chen, Yingxin Zhu, Yanhua He, Baoying Li and Wenjie Wang