We study the effects of macroeconomic shocks on several measures of economic inequality obtained from U.S. survey data … macroeconomic shocks on economic inequality depend on the type of shock as well as on the measure of inequality considered …. Contractionary monetary policy shocks increase expenditure and consumption inequality, whereas income and earnings inequality are …

Administrative burdens may deepen inequality by creating costly experiences for vulnerable groups. Research to date …

inequality and the incidence of poverty are greater in the United States than in Germany. Overall inequality and poverty levels … income ; inequality ; poverty … different results from those using all other scales with respect to the relative income and poverty levels of vulnerable groups …

The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United …

Families in poverty face numerous barriers to establishing stable economic footing. This paper examines the effect of a …

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …

Intra-household inequality continues to remain a neglected corner despite renewed focus on income and wealth inequality …. Using the LIS micro data, we present evidence that this neglect is Equivalent to ignoring up to a third of total inequality …. For a wide range of countries and over four decades, we show that at least 30 per cent of total inequality is attributable …