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New paper on the evolution of top income inequality in Germany (WID.world Working Paper 2017/18)
This new paper by Charlotte Bartels presents new findings on the long-run dynamics of income inequality in Germany between 1871 and 2013. Top income earners
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New paper on wealth inequality in Spain (WID.world Working Paper 2017/19)
This new paper by Clara Martínez-Toledano combines tax records, national accounts and wealth surveys to estimate detailed series on the evolution of wealth inequality in
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New paper on wealth inequality in Spain
In “Wealth in Spain, 1900-2014: A country of Two Lands”, Miguel Artola Blanco, Luis E. Bauluz and Clara Martínez-Toledano present new findings on the long-run
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First WID.world Conference: Program available
The program of the First WID.world Conference, which will be hosted by the Paris School of Economics on December 14th and 15th, 2017, is ready.
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New Paper on inequality in Poland 1983-2015
The new paper by Pawel Bukowski and Filip Novokmet “Inequality in Poland: Estimating the Whole Distribution by g-percentile 1983-2015” combines national accounts, survey and tax data in
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WID.world & The World Inequality Lab Newsletter Welcome to the third WID.world and World Inequality Lab newsletter, which covers our main developments over the last
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New paper on inequality in the Middle East
This new paper by F. Alvaredo, L. Assouad and T. Piketty, “Measuring Inequality in the Middle East, 1990-2016: The World’s Most Unequal Region?”, WID.world Working
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New paper on inequality in Lebanon
This new paper by Lydia Assouad, “Rethinking the Lebanese economic miracle: The extreme concentration of income and wealth in Lebanon 2005-2014”, WID.world Working Paper 2017/13, combines
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New paper and inequality series on India
This new paper by L. Chancel and T. Piketty, “Indian income inequality, 1922-2014: From British Raj to Billionaire Raj ?”, WID.world Working Paper series 2017/11,
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