OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Economic Inequality is 1. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Migrant wealth in Germany	142
Local inequality and crime: New evidence from South Africa	108
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017	73
The Income Gradient in Mortality during the Covid-19 Crisis: Evidence from Belgium	64
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions	38
Spouses’ earnings association and inequality: A non-linear perspective	36
Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK	34
Intergenerational persistence in latent socioeconomic status: evidence from Taiwan	32
Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail	29
Fair crack of the whip? The distribution of augmented wealth in Australia from 2002 to 2018	26
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries	26
Which workers bear the burden of social distancing?	25
Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality	23
Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data	20
Opportunity advantage between income distributions	15
Correction to: The K-Shaped Recovery: Examining the Diverging Fortunes of Workers in the Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Business and Household Survey Microdata	15
Polarization and its discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring	14
What drives regional economic inequalities in Tunisia? Evidence from unconditional quantile decomposition analysis	14
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels	13
Social gradients in employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality	13
Inequality of opportunity in access to and consumption of modern energy in Togo: A parametric approach	12
Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques	12
Wealth at birth and its effect on child academic achievement and behavioral problems	12
The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland	11

Do late-life divorces produce greater gender inequalities? Evidence from administrative data	10
Enforcing ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ in the EU: what would it take?	10
Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic	9
The impact of FDI income on income shares in home countries	8
Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru	8
The fall in income inequality during COVID-19 in four European countries	8
The measurement of health inequalities: does status matter?	7
Absolute intragenerational mobility in the United States, 1962–2014	7
On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves	6
Missing Poor in the U.S.	6
The Black and white differential in income and consumption dynamics	6
Assumption-light and computationally cheap inference on inequality measures by sample splitting: the Student t approach	6
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression	6
Education development and income inequality: evidence from China	6
Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China	5
The dynamics of poverty in Europe: what has changed after the great recession?	5
Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour	5
Demographic behaviour and earnings inequality across OECD countries	5
The Use of Distributional National Accounts in Better Capturing the Top Tail of the Distribution	5
Parenthood and the distribution of intra-household inequalities in wellbeing	5
Correction to: Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low‑income dynamics approach for Chile	5
Central bank independence, income inequality and poverty: What do the data say?	5
Family characteristics in U.S. intragenerational family income mobility, 1978–2014	5
Intergenerational home ownership	5
Being poor and being NEET in Europe: Are these two sides of the same coin?	5
Inequality and income mobility: the case of targeted and universal interventions in India	4
Like father, like son? A comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US	4
What interaction between income inequality and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?	4
Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?	4
Uncovering Gatsby Curves	4
About some difficulties with the functional forms of Lorenz curves	4
Credit and income mobility in Russia	4
How does predistribution affect redistribution?	4
COVID-19 and income inequality: evidence from monthly population registers	4
Representative endowments and uniform Gini orderings of multi-attribute welfare	4
Book reviews	4
Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time	3
The sources and structure of wage inequality changes in the selected Central-Eastern European Countries	3
Disaggregated impacts of off-farm work participation on household vulnerability to food poverty in Ghana	3
Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach	3
What explains recent trends in income inequality in the European Union?	3
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany	3
Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile	2
The capital share and income inequality: Increasing gaps between micro and macro-data	2
A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters	2
Intergenerational earnings persistence and the provision of public goods: evidence from chile’s constitutional process	2
A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of multidimensional relative poverty alleviation efforts in China	2
Sources of gender wage gaps for skilled workers in Latin American countries	2
The Stock Market and the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States	2
Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?	2

Functional distribution, personal income inequality, and top shares of income: do social classes still matter?	2
Inheritances and wealth inequality: a machine learning approach	2
Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	2
When government’s economic ideology shapes income redistribution. Empirical evidence from the OECD	2
Evaluating ordinal inequalities between groups	2
Promoting education under distortionary taxation: equality of opportunity versus welfarism	1
Annualizing labor market, inequality, and poverty indicators	1
The impact of COVID-19 on households´ income in the EU	1
Economic zones and local income inequality: Evidence from Indonesia	1
The global distribution of gains from globalization	1
Aspirations and investments in rural Myanmar	1
Ordinal health disparities between population subgroups: measurement and multivariate analysis with an application to the North-South divide in England	1
Top-end inequality and growth: empirical exploration of nonlinearities and the time dimension	1
The effects of restricted access to healthcare on vulnerable people: an analysis of the determinants of health outcomes among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Identification-robust methods for comparing inequality with an application to regional disparities	1
The two-sample two-stage least squares method to estimate the intergenerational earnings elasticity	1
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries	1
The asymmetric effect of US local oil and gas reliance on income inequality in the fracking era	1
A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data	1
The shortest confidence interval for the ratio of quantiles of the Dagum distribution	1
Understanding the role of inequality of opportunity in body mass index and waist circumference among Mexican adults	1
A distributional decomposition of birthweight differences by maternal education: A comparison of France and the UK	1
What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics	1
Intergenerational income mobility in Turkey	1
Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans	1
Projecting the impact of COVID-19 on education and intergenerational mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
Poverty among same-sex couple families in the United States: Is there a premium for married couples?	1
Two decades of child-contingent policies and redistribution in Spain	1
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data	1
Transformations that minimize the Gini index of a random variable and applications	1
Income-dependent equivalence scales: A fresh look at German micro-data	1
Fairness with unequal productive skills among other-regarding individuals	1
Electoral cycles in inequality	1
What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis for 27 European countries	1
Does foreign aid reduce poverty? A dynamic panel data analysis for sub-Saharan African countries	1
When perception shapes reality: Effects of perceived income inequality and social mobility on affective polarization	1
How did COVID affect savings and wealth? An empirical study in South Africa	1
Income developments in the great recession: status for the Danish prime-age working population a decade following the onset of the Financial Crisis	1
The regression approach to the measurement and decomposition of the multidimensional Watts poverty index	1
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter	1
Effect of regional disparities on national economic growth. A spatial panel data evidence from EU countries in 2000–2020	1