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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Migrant wealth in Germany	84
Local inequality and crime: New evidence from South Africa	37
Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail	32
Spouses’ earnings association and inequality: A non-linear perspective	25
Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK	20
Ageing unequally in Latin America	18
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017	17
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions	17
Distributional divergence as a unifying measurement framework	16
Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality	15
Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data	14
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries	14
Fair crack of the whip? The distribution of augmented wealth in Australia from 2002 to 2018	12
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	11
Social gradients in employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	10
What drives regional economic inequalities in Tunisia? Evidence from unconditional quantile decomposition analysis	10
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels	10
Polarization and its discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring	9
Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques	9
Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality	9
Fairness judgments about animals	9
Inequality of opportunity in access to and consumption of modern energy in Togo: A parametric approach	8
Wealth at birth and its effect on child academic achievement and behavioral problems	8
The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland	8
The impact of FDI income on income shares in home countries	7

Equivalence scales revisited: Evidence from subjective data	7
Preferences for redistributive justice: A participatory-democracy experiment	7
Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic	7
Enforcing ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ in the EU: what would it take?	7
Do late-life divorces produce greater gender inequalities? Evidence from administrative data	7
Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru	6
Missing Poor in the U.S.	6
Absolute intragenerational mobility in the United States, 1962–2014	6
Assumption-light and computationally cheap inference on inequality measures by sample splitting: the Student t approach	6
The Black and white differential in income and consumption dynamics	6
Correction to: Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	5
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression	5
Education development and income inequality: evidence from China	5
On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves	5
Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour	5
The dynamics of poverty in Europe: what has changed after the great recession?	5
Demographic behaviour and earnings inequality across OECD countries	4
Inequality acceptance in China: fairness views, inequality beliefs, and policy attitudes in a socialist market economy	4
Correction to: Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low‑income dynamics approach for Chile	4
The Use of Distributional National Accounts in Better Capturing the Top Tail of the Distribution	4
Central bank independence, income inequality and poverty: What do the data say?	4
Levelling the playing field? SES differences in graduate degree choices*	4
Intergenerational home ownership	4
Thinking about need	4
Family characteristics in U.S. intragenerational family income mobility, 1978–2014	4
Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China	4
Immigrant key workers: their contribution to Europe’s Covid-19 response	3
Uncovering Gatsby Curves	3
Parenthood and the distribution of intra-household inequalities in wellbeing	3
COVID-19 and income inequality: evidence from monthly population registers	3
Being poor and being NEET in Europe: Are these two sides of the same coin?	3
Inequality and income mobility: the case of targeted and universal interventions in India	3
About some difficulties with the functional forms of Lorenz curves	2
How does predistribution affect redistribution?	2
What interaction between income inequality and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?	2
What explains recent trends in income inequality in the European Union?	2
The sources and structure of wage inequality changes in the selected Central-Eastern European Countries	2
Representative endowments and uniform Gini orderings of multi-attribute welfare	2
Credit and income mobility in Russia	2
Disaggregated impacts of off-farm work participation on household vulnerability to food poverty in Ghana	2
Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach	2
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany	2
Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?	2
Irrigation agriculture and income redistribution	2
Book reviews	2
Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time	2
Review: The Handbook of Inequality and Work, by Cynthia Forson, Geraldine Healy, Mustafa Öztürk, and Ahu Tatli	2
Non-linear impact of minimum wage on poverty and inequality: when raising it fails to help	2
The asymmetric effect of US local oil and gas reliance on income inequality in the fracking era	1
Electoral cycles in inequality	1

Fairness with unequal productive skills among other-regarding individuals	1
A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters	1
Functional distribution, personal income inequality, and top shares of income: do social classes still matter?	1
Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile	1
The global distribution of gains from globalization	1
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries	1
The shortest confidence interval for the ratio of quantiles of the Dagum distribution	1
Poverty among same-sex couple families in the United States: Is there a premium for married couples?	1
Ordinal health disparities between population subgroups: measurement and multivariate analysis with an application to the North-South divide in England	1
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data	1
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter	1
Economic zones and local income inequality: Evidence from Indonesia	1
Understanding the role of inequality of opportunity in body mass index and waist circumference among Mexican adults	1
Intergenerational earnings persistence and the provision of public goods: evidence from chile’s constitutional process	1
A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of multidimensional relative poverty alleviation efforts in China	1
Evaluating ordinal inequalities between groups	1
A distributional decomposition of birthweight differences by maternal education: A comparison of France and the UK	1
Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans	1
Annualizing labor market, inequality, and poverty indicators	1
Top-end inequality and growth: empirical exploration of nonlinearities and the time dimension	1
Identification-robust methods for comparing inequality with an application to regional disparities	1
Promoting education under distortionary taxation: equality of opportunity versus welfarism	1
What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics	1
Elasticity of marginal utility of consumption: the equal-sacrifice approach applied for the Czech Republic	1
Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	1
The Stock Market and the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States	1
When government’s economic ideology shapes income redistribution. Empirical evidence from the OECD	1
How information about effort and luck shapes altruism of social preferences: a survey experiment	1
Inheritances and wealth inequality: a machine learning approach	1
Effect of regional disparities on national economic growth. A spatial panel data evidence from EU countries in 2000–2020	1
A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data	1
Review: Hierarchy of needs and the measurement of poverty and standards of living by Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber	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
What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis for 27 European countries	1