Human Rights Watch | UN member countries should work to align the emerging United Nations tax convention with international human rights law to achieve its objective of advancing sustainable development, seven human rights groups said today in a submission to the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commit...
IFS | We study the welfare cost of inflation during the 2021–2023 UK inflation surge using household scanner data on fast-moving consumer goods. We develop and implement a non-homothetic, index number-based decomposition of inflation-driven welfare changes into exposure, substitution, and income eff...
Intergenerational wealth transmission and homeownership in Europe–a comparative perspective
Abstract
The literature on social and wealth inequality has long acknowledged the importance of intergenerational wealth transmission (IWT) to inequality in homeownership tenure. However, it has paid insu...
desiguALdades.net is an interdisciplinary, international and multi-institutional research network on interdependent inequalities in Latin America. The specific research profile emphasizes the multidimensionality and global interdependencies of social inequalities in Latin America.
On the occasion of the Einstein Year 2005, Dr. Daniel Dahm, Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr and Rudolf zur Lippe wrote the Potsdam Manifesto and the Potsdam Memorandum. It bridges quantum physics, ecology and philosophy and shows that diversity, difference and change are evolutionary principles of our living wo...
Not only has been economic inequality on the rise, but also the research agenda on inequality has moved decisively from the fringes to the center of policy and academic interest. This new concern and concentration in respect to this topic, data records, and methodological approaches have given rise...