-specific dimensions, indicators, weights and cut-offs. This paper analyses the 2013 round of the multidimensional poverty and inequality …Research into multidimensional poverty has gathered momentum in the last half decade, most notably in the aftermath of … policy instruments. Multidimensional poverty theories have been vigorously advocated by some of the most thoughtful and hard …

Retirement wealth is often viewed as a great equalizer, offsetting the inequality in standard household net worth. One … considerably weaker offsetting effect on wealth inequality in 2001 than in 1983. Whereas standard net worth inequality increased … modestly between 1983 and 2001, the inequality of augmented wealth (the sum of retirement wealth and net worth) surged from …

briskly in the late 1990s, it fell slightly between 2001 and 2004, while the inequality of net worth increased slightly …

question of the relationship between class structure and overall economic inequality. Our analysis of the U.S. data shows that … substantially to overall inequality. …

Although income inequality has been studied extensively, relatively little attention has been paid to the role of … find this to be true, but not for the reason predicted by theory. Virtually all of the decline in measured inequality, when …

quality. The theoretical model suggests that income inequality, coupled with political bias in favor of the rich, decreases … in a panel of countries, the paper finds that inequality has a negative effect on both institutional quality and …

Earlier studies on income inequality and crime have typically used total income or total earnings. However, it is quite … is therefore to disentangle the two effects by, first, estimating region-specific inequality in permanent and transitory … indicate that it is important to separate the two effects; while an increase in the inequality in permanent income yields a …

We examine the relationship between changes in a country's public sector fiscal position and inequality at the top and …-like indices of inequality as our measures to assess distributional changes. Based on the EU's Statistics on Income and Living … rising inequality at the top. The data also weakly suggest a decrease in inequality at the bottom. The distributional impact …

inequality from 2005 to 2016 at the monthly frequency. We investigate the dynamic relationship between monetary policy and the … evolution of wealth inequality measures. Our findings suggest that expansionary monetary policy shocks lead to an increase in … wealth inequality and contributed significantly to its fluctuations. This effect is heterogenous across the wealth …