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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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The beginning of the end of tripartition? European elections and social inequalities in France, 1994-2024

June 24, 2024 | WID.world

The Rassemblent national came out clearly on top in the 2024 European elections in France. How do these results fit into the country’s electoral history?

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World Inequality Lab Receives Grant from Good Council for Redistribution

June 18, 2024 | WID.world

The Guter Rat für Rückverteilung (Good Council for Redistribution) has awarded the World Inequality Lab (WIL) a grant of €640,000 to provide better data on

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Taxing wealth: reporting requirements and enforcement are as important as the tax rates

June 10, 2024 | WID.world

Over the last decades, there has been extensive research on the behavioral responses to taxes. This empirically-grounded research is crucial for informing the public debate

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Monopoly power drives wealth inequality in Australia

June 5, 2024 | WID.world

Recent decades have seen an increase in top wealth shares and an increase in market concentration in Australia. Are excessively concentrated markets inequitable as well

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New Macro Update

June 3, 2024 | WID.world

What’s new in the World Inequality Database? The World Inequality Lab released its 2024 macro update with new series on: Update of the macro series

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