neighbors. Two new Gini-type spatial inequality indices are introduced: the first index measures the average degree of income …Spatial income inequality in cities is assessed by looking at the distribution of income across individuals and their … inequality within individual neighborhoods; the second index measures the inequality of average incomes among individual …

flows and the domestic economic performances when explicitly accounting for wealth inequality on imperfect capital markets …

Piketty (2017) argues in favor of a multidimensional and relational approach to the analysis of wealth inequality … countries. We discuss many potential advantages of this class typology in measuring and analyzing wealth and wealth inequality …

policy may have contributed to the persistent growth in income inequality in Japan, as measured by metrics such as the Gini …

This paper describes individuals' inequality perceptions, distributional norms, and redistributive preferences in a … inequality and redistribution. Not surprisingly, the effective level of redistribution (after tax-and-transfer inequality) is … objective dimension of inequality and redistribution are, at least partially, linked with individuals' political preferences and …

One might expect that rising US income inequality would reduce demand growth and create a drag on the economy because … higher-income groups spend a smaller share of income. But during a quarter century of rising inequality, US growth and … inequality could be one explanation for the stagnant recovery in the recession's aftermath. …

The question of whether changes in income inequality affect CO2 emissions remains a topic of debate at both theoretical …

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 …

.5 Gini points); similarly, the increase in inequality between 1959 and 2004 was higher in MI than LIMEW (6.2 versus 5.1 Gini … 1982, and much faster than MI from 1982 to 2004. In 2004, measured inequality was lower in LIMEW than MI (a difference of 5 …

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