sustainability challenges, such as rising income inequality, wealth concentration and growing carbon emissions. In this regard, an …

The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … detailed micro level information to construct historical measures of inequality from 1968 to 2008. We study whether monetary … monetary policy shocks lead to a deterioration in earnings and income inequality and contribute to its fluctuation. Our …

This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of … inequality in Brazil but maintain the decreasing inequality trends, even though they are less pronounced than previously measured …

The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … detailed micro level information to construct quarterly historical measures of inequality from 1969 to 2012. We investigate … whether monetary policy shocks played a role in explaining this increase in inequality. We find that contractionary monetary …

The evidence of higher income inequality leading to increased HIV prevalence through channels of coercion and migration … relationship. Initially from income inequality to HIV prevalence; then from HIV prevalence to reduced human capital formation and … subsequently generating human capital inequality via reduced investment in human capital of affected households and back to income …