The Journal of Economic Inequality

2016 - 2025

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Volume 20, issue 4, 2022

Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China pp. 749-776

Martin Ravallion and Shaohua Chen

The COVID-19 resilience of a continental welfare regime - nowcasting the distributional impact of the crisis pp. 777-809

Denisa Sologon, Cathal O’Donoghue, Iryna Kyzyma, Jinjing Li, Jules Linden and Raymond Wagener

Will COVID-19 Have Long-Lasting Effects on Inequality? Evidence from Past Pandemics pp. 811-839

Davide Furceri, Prakash Loungani, Jonathan Ostry and Pietro Pizzuto

Ordinal health disparities between population subgroups: measurement and multivariate analysis with an application to the North-South divide in England pp. 841-860

Paul Allanson

Shadow Economy and Poverty: What Causes What? pp. 861-891

Thi Hong Hanh Pham

Are fairness perceptions shaped by income inequality? evidence from Latin America pp. 893-913

Germán Reyes and Leonardo Gasparini

The dynamics of poverty in Europe: what has changed after the great recession? pp. 915-937

Chiara Mussida and Dario Sciulli

About some difficulties with the functional forms of Lorenz curves pp. 939-950

Louis de Mesnard

The regression approach to the measurement and decomposition of the multidimensional Watts poverty index pp. 951-973

Tomson Ogwang

Correction to: Extendingmultidimensional Poverty Identification: from Additive Weights to Minimal Bundles pp. 975-976

Sam Jones

Book reviews pp. 977-998

Elena Barcena-Martin

Volume 20, issue 3, 2022

Income taxation and equity: new dominance criteria with a microsimulation application pp. 509-536

Paolo Brunori, Flaviana Palmisano and Vito Peragine

The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on labor market flows: evidence from administrative data pp. 537-558

Alessandra Casarico and Salvatore Lattanzio

How much does reducing inequality matter for global poverty? pp. 559-585

Christoph Lakner, Daniel Gerszon Mahler, Mario Negre and Espen Prydz

Absolute intragenerational mobility in the United States, 1962–2014 pp. 587-609

Yonatan Berman

Spouses’ earnings association and inequality: A non-linear perspective pp. 611-638

Shoshana Grossbard, Lucia Mangiavacchi, William Nilsson and Luca Piccoli

Credit and income mobility in Russia pp. 639-669

David Aristei and Cristiano Perugini

Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries pp. 671-700

Paolo Liberati and Giuliano Resce

Devolution in the U.S. Welfare Reform: Divergence and Degradation in State Benefits pp. 701-726

Luis Ayala, Elena Barcena-Martin and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez

A multivariate extension of the Lorenz curve based on copulas and a related multivariate Gini coefficient pp. 727-748

Oliver Grothe, Fabian Kächele and Friedrich Schmid

Volume 20, issue 2, 2022

Promoting education under distortionary taxation: equality of opportunity versus welfarism pp. 281-297

Pertti Haaparanta, Ravi Kanbur, Tuuli Paukkeri, Jukka Pirttilä and Matti Tuomala

The measurement of health inequalities: does status matter? pp. 299-325

Joan Costa-Font and Frank Cowell

Absolute Poverty and Sound Public Finance in the Eurozone pp. 327-344

Rosaria Rita Canale and Giorgio Liotti

Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017 pp. 345-369

Silvia Avram, Mike Brewer, Paul Fisher and Laura Fumagalli

Openness, Income Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from China pp. 371-393

Yong Ma and Diandian Chen

Fair income tax with endogenous productivities and a fresh start pp. 395-420

Aitor Calo-Blanco

Extending multidimensional poverty identification: from additive weights to minimal bundles pp. 421-438

Sam Jones

Sources of gender wage gaps for skilled workers in Latin American countries pp. 439-463

Marcela Perticará and Mauricio Tejada

Meritocracy in Academic Labor Markets: A Comparison of Three Fields pp. 465-481

Michael Ransom, Michael J. Hilmer and Christiana E. Hilmer

Transformations that minimize the Gini index of a random variable and applications pp. 483-502

Michael McAsey and Libin Mou

Correction to: the Fall in Income Inequality during COVID-19 in Four European Countries pp. 503-507

Andrew Clark, Conchita D’Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur

Volume 20, issue 1, 2022

Pareto models for top incomes and wealth pp. 1-25

Arthur Charpentier and Emmanuel Flachaire

Inheritances and wealth inequality: a machine learning approach pp. 27-51

Pedro Salas-Rojo and Juan Rodríguez

The Stock Market and the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States pp. 53-66

Edward N. Wolff

Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data pp. 67-95

Nishant Yonzan, Branko Milanovic, Salvatore Morelli and Janet Gornick

Long-run trends in top income shares: The role of income and population growth pp. 97-118

Carla Krolage, Andreas Peichl and Daniel Waldenström

The weight of the rich: improving surveys using tax data pp. 119-150

Thomas Blanchet, Ignacio Flores and Marc Morgan

Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK pp. 151-168

Stephen Jenkins

Missing the wealthy in the HFCS: micro problems with macro implications pp. 169-203

Sofie Waltl and Robin Chakraborty

Missing Top Income Recipients pp. 205-222

Martin Ravallion

Declining inequality in Latin America? Robustness checks for Peru pp. 223-243

Diego Winkelried and Bruno Escobar

The Use of Distributional National Accounts in Better Capturing the Top Tail of the Distribution pp. 245-254

Jorrit Zwijnenburg

Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail pp. 255-264

Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman

Book reviews pp. 265-280

Elena Barcena-Martin

Volume 19, issue 4, 2021

Urban poverty: Measurement theory and evidence from American cities pp. 599-642

Francesco Andreoli, Mauro Mussini, Vincenzo Prete and Claudio Zoli

Estimating intergenerational income mobility on sub-optimal data: a machine learning approach pp. 643-665

Francesco Bloise, Paolo Brunori and Patrizio Piraino

Like father, like son? A comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US pp. 667-683

Maximilian Stockhausen

The capital share and income inequality: Increasing gaps between micro and macro-data pp. 685-706

Ignacio Flores

Asset bubbles in explaining top income shares pp. 707-726

Saikat Sarkar and Matti Tuomala

Aspirations and investments in rural Myanmar pp. 727-752

Jeffrey Bloem

Intergenerational persistence in latent socioeconomic status: evidence from Taiwan pp. 753-772

Hsiu-Fen Hsu

A note on pessimism in education and its economic consequences pp. 773-783

Karol Mazur

Opportunity advantage between income distributions pp. 785-799

Carmen Herrero and Antonio Villar

Inequality, perception biases and trust pp. 801-824

Markus Knell and Helmut Stix

The immigrant-native wage gap in Germany revisited pp. 825-854

Kai Ingwersen and Stephan Thomsen

Income-dependent equivalence scales: A fresh look at German micro-data pp. 855-873

Jan Marvin Garbuszus, Notburga Ott, Sebastian Pehle and Martin Werding

Does foreign aid reduce poverty? A dynamic panel data analysis for sub-Saharan African countries pp. 875-893

Edmore Mahembe and Nicholas Odhiambo

Correction to: The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Business and Household Survey Microdata pp. 895-896

Michael Dalton, Jeffrey A. Groen, Mark A. Loewenstein, David S. Piccone and Anne E. Polivka

Volume 19, issue 3, 2021

The impact of COVID-19 on households´ income in the EU pp. 413-431

Vanda Almeida, Salvador Barrios, Michael Christl, Silvia Poli, Alberto Tumino and Wouter van der Wielen

Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes? pp. 433-458

Mike Brewer and Iva Tasseva

Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time pp. 459-487

Kerstin Bruckmeier, Andreas Peichl, Martin Popp, Jürgen Wiemers and Timo Wollmershäuser

The fall in income inequality during COVID-19 in four European countries pp. 489-507

Andrew Clark, Conchita D’Ambrosio and Anthony Lepinteur

Which workers bear the burden of social distancing? pp. 509-526

Simon Mongey, Laura Pilossoph and Alexander Weinberg

The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Business and Household Survey Microdata pp. 527-550

Michael Dalton, Jeffrey A. Groen, Mark A. Loewenstein, David S. Piccone and Anne E. Polivka

The Income Gradient in Mortality during the Covid-19 Crisis: Evidence from Belgium pp. 551-570

André Decoster, Thomas Minten and Johannes Spinnewijn

Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America pp. 571-598

Guido Neidhöfer, Nora Lustig and Mariano Tommasi

Volume 19, issue 2, 2021

Measurement of inequality of opportunity: A normative approach pp. 213-237

Kristof Bosmans and Z. Emel Öztürk

Individuals’ socioeconomic position, inequality perceptions, and redistributive preferences in OECD countries pp. 239-264

Gwangeun Choi

Self-centered and non-self-centered inequality aversion matter: Evidence from Uruguay based on an experimental survey pp. 265-291

Santiago Burone and Martin Leites

Income and wealth volatility: evidence from Italy and the U.S. in the past two decades pp. 293-313

Giorgia Menta, Edward N. Wolff and Conchita D'Ambrosio

Choosing inequality: how economic security fosters competitive regimes pp. 315-346

Alexander Lenger, Stephan Wolf and Nils Goldschmidt

Gender disparities in top earnings: measurement and facts for Denmark 1980-2013 pp. 347-362

Niels-Jakob Harbo Hansen, Karl Harmenberg, Erik Öberg and Hans Sievertsen

A conditional Gini: measure, estimation, and application pp. 363-384

Christian Ahlin and Hyeok Jeong

Walls of glass. Measuring deprivation in social participation pp. 385-411

Nicolai Suppa

Volume 19, issue 1, 2021

Introduction March 2021 issue pp. 1-2

Frank Cowell and Cecilia Garcia-Penalosa

Sustainable Development Goals and the Study of Economic Inequality pp. 3-11

Ravi Kanbur

Accounting for differences in income inequality across countries: tax-benefit policy, labour market structure, returns and demographics pp. 13-43

Denisa Sologon, Philippe Van Kerm, Jinjing Li and Cathal O’Donoghue

Sibling correlation in risk attitudes: evidence from Burkina Faso pp. 45-72

Mohammad Sepahvand and Roujman Shahbazian

Parental time restrictions and the cost of children: insights from a survey among mothers pp. 73-95

Melanie Borah, Andreas Knabe and Kevin Pahlke

The nexus between perceptions of inequality and preferences for redistribution pp. 97-114

Roberto Iacono and Marco Ranaldi

Individual Attitudes Toward Government’s Role in Redistributing Income in the United States: Analysis by Ideological Subgroups pp. 115-137

Ernest M. Zampelli and Steven T. Yen

A multidimensional approach to measuring the middle class pp. 139-162

María Edo, Walter Sosa Escudero and Marcela Svarc

Elasticity determinants of inequality-reducing income taxation pp. 163-183

Oriol Carbonell-Nicolau and Humberto Llavador

Normative Measures of Tax Progressivity: an International Comparison pp. 185-212

Nanak Kakwani and Hyun Hwa Son