OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Inequality is 4. 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
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels	10
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
Fairness judgments about animals	9
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
The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland	8
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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