Historical inequality is difficult to measure, especially at the sub-country level and beyond the top income shares …. This paper presents new evidence on the level of inequality in Manhattan from 1880 to 1910 using housing rents. Rental … measure of consumption inequality at the household level which helps to develop the picture of urban inequality for this …

Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases …

yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … mismeasurement rise. Taxable income is subject to the highest inequality, which further undergoes the highest upward correction for … corrections confirm the inequality-neutral impact of pensions in Mexico, and equalizing impacts of transfers, direct taxes …

middle-income jobs have been replaced by low- and high-income jobs. The rise in inequality and polarization have been more … for housing-related reasons than those with low or high income. Second, polarization and inequality grew more in commuting …

This paper applies a novel inequality estimation method to household consumption expenditure in Mumbai, India. Since … the richest households may be missing in survey data, this reestimated inequality figure takes them into account by … coefficient of 0.447 underestimates consumption inequality in Mumbai; none of the ten investigated scenarios yields a higher …

does not necessarily improve residential satisfaction for the society as a whole if it leads to housing wealth inequality … income gap and rising wealth inequality. Policymakers should be mindful about the far-reaching effect of housing wealth … inequality. Given the significant impact of housing wealth distribution on residential satisfaction, and ultimately people …