When people are confronted with high income inequality, they develop an unrealistically optimistic view of their chances for social mobility. This misjudgment leads them to show less support for political redistribution—a mechanism that stabilizes social inequality. This conclusion was reached by WZ...
Commissioned by the G20 South Africa Presidency | Inequality is one of the most urgent concerns in the world today, generating many other problems in economies, societies, polities and the environment.
Source: G20 Reports.
euro news | People with disabilities face discrimination in all areas of life. However, disabled women face especially bigger challenges, according to Inclusion Europe.
Source: euro news.
WID.world combines different data sources: national accounts, survey data, fiscal data, and wealth rankings. By doing so, it becomes possible to track more precisely the evolution of all income or wealth levels, from the bottom to the top. The key novelty of WID.world is to use such data in a system...
What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution of inequality, the concentration of wealth, and the prospects for economic growth lie at the heart of political economy. But satisfactory answers have been hard to find for la...
To benchmark and monitor economic inequality across countries, the OECD relies on two dedicated statistical databases: the OECD Income Distribution Database (IDD), which offers data on levels and trends in income inequality and poverty, and the OECD Wealth Distribution Database (WDD), which collects...