Journals

We examine trends in household disposable income inequality and potential mechanisms shaping inequality.

We investigate the progression of income inequality in Denmark over the years 1987–2021.

This paper documents how the inequality of household equivalent disposable income has changed in Sweden over the period 1990–2021.

Using a unique district-level panel dataset, we investigate the effect of banking system penetration on financial inclusion in Ghana.

Focusing on the period from 2005 to 2015 in Peru, I investigate the social costs imposed by poor implementation of public infrastructure.

We assess the impact of the change in the UK’s minimum wage between 2016 and 2019 on wages, earnings, employment and household incomes.

These findings are based on more than 19,000 observations from the third round of the Life in Transition Survey.

In 2006, the Chinese central government increased civil servant salaries and pensions and used either unfunded and funded mandates in different areas.

This paper looks at the motivation behind the expansion of in-work tax credits in the face of growing wage inequality and in-work poverty.

We draw on firm-level administrative VAT records from 11 countries at different income levels to examine the functioning of real-world VAT systems.

In this paper, we provide an overview of the sample design of Understanding Society and the consequent nature of design weights.

We review the potential barriers to data collection using mobile apps and experimental evidence collected with the UK Household Longitudinal Study.

We introduce the income data of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study.

Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study includes a wide range of health measures, and in particular biomarker and genetic data.

We study political donations data disclosed since 2001 to evaluate the role of private and public political finance over time.

This study uses variations in state income tax refunds over time to estimate consumption responses to lump-sum payments.

We show that responses of UK company owner-managers to personal taxes are due to intertemporal income shifting and not reductions in business activity