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 …

household income by 11 percent. Inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient, was more stable: individual earnings inequality … fell 4 percent; individual income inequality was unchanged, while equivalised household income inequality increased 2 …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health …

inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). …

the distribution of consumption, poverty and inequality in the world. …

We examine the relationship between perceived income positions and attitudes towards inequality at a supranational …

increases in income inequality and poverty. We link this result to a sizeable downgrading of (mostly unregistered) Venezuelan …