OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Economic Inequality is 5. 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
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
Opportunity advantage between income distributions	15
What drives regional economic inequalities in Tunisia? Evidence from unconditional quantile decomposition analysis	14
Polarization and its discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring	14
Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality	13
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
Wealth at birth and its effect on child academic achievement and behavioral problems	12
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
The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland	11

Enforcing ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ in the EU: what would it take?	10
Do late-life divorces produce greater gender inequalities? Evidence from administrative data	10
Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic	9
The fall in income inequality during COVID-19 in four European countries	8
The impact of FDI income on income shares in home countries	8
Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru	8
Absolute intragenerational mobility in the United States, 1962–2014	7
The measurement of health inequalities: does status matter?	7
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression	6
Education development and income inequality: evidence from China	6
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
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
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