Category: Inequality
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On gender inequality
Gender inequality and fiscal policy. Are children still negatively impacting women’s earnings?
Gender wage gaps
Gender wage gaps around the world in 2018. What lies behind these gaps? what are the effects on the macroeconomy?
Have views on immigration evolved?
Concerns over immigration flows in Western Europe have abated.
On labor unions
How does new research on labor unions address the trade off between equality and efficiency?
Did QE increase inequality after all?
New research on whether QE has increased inequality in the UK, Italy and the US.
Ethics and inequality
When luck and cheating determine wealth how should income be redistributed?
Views from around the world
Economists opine about the the Eurozone, Brexit and the Trump tariffs.
Why are wages not increasing?
New research on how rising concentration in labor markets, caused by a decrease in the number of employers competing for workers, has led to suppression of wages both in the US and Europe.
The debate over minimum wage
Novel new research on how increases in minimum wage affect employment, crime and fertility of high income families.