Trends in global poverty are changing and global measurement of poverty reduction might be overstated.

Empirical evidence on how immigration affects wages is inconclusive. Or is it? Is there a bias in the research published in the top five journals? What is the effect of technology?

On inequality through the lens of history.  Economists worry about inequality but people worry about lack of opportunity – a new US survey.

As technology changes does skilled labor still enjoy a wage premium? What is the equilibrium level of automation?

Inequality is not a distributional issue it is likely a central force shaping broader macro-economic trends.

New research on: how to better measure the degree of economic distress felt by everyday people; what does a better price dataset imply about inequality?

Two new papers on inequality addressing why capital flows from equal to unequal  countries and whether wealth inequality is actually perceived as unfair.

Interesting empirical evidence from Denmark. Who among the wealthy gains from expansionary monetary policy?

Could the slowdown in recent business cycle recoveries be attributed to female employment? How social norms affect the marriage gap between skilled and unskilled women ?

Interesting new research on how inequality decreases house prices, while expansionary monetary policy increases the mortgage rates paid by minority borrowers.