Across 36 countries, a median of 54% say the gap between the rich and poor is a very big problem in their nation.

Citations: Rivera, Lauren, Andras Tilcsik. 2019. Scaling Down Inequality: Rating Scales, Gender Bias, and the Architecture of Evaluation. American Sociological Review ...

In 2013, Cobham and Sumner proposed an alternative to the Gini co-efficient: the Palma ratio. They named it after José Gabriel Palma, a Chilean economist. Palma noticed that in most countries, the ...

Research from Professor Melanie Wallskog showed that performance-based bonuses drive the pay gap within companies ...

Inequality is a notoriously challenging concept on which to make definitive statements ... The chart plots the number of years of life lost to the pandemic per 100,000 inhabitants against GDP per ...

If the middle class looks upwards, the rich are pulling further away. A top-tier life feels further out of reach than ever. But look down, and the floor is coming up fast. This simultaneous rise of ...

A contrasting view is that development initially requires a sufficient amount of inequality. That is, wealth must be concentrated in the hands of a few so that they can invest in capital and build ...

The big picture, says the IFS, is the UK is becoming more like the US, with a concentration of wealth at the top and pressure on working families lower down the pay scale. 'Inequality of political ...

The Gini coefficient--an index that measures income inequality on a scale ranging between 0 and 1--rose to 0.5700 based on initial income, or before distribution through taxation and social ...