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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Migrant wealth in Germany	147
Local inequality and crime: New evidence from South Africa	109
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017	77
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions	67
Spouses’ earnings association and inequality: A non-linear perspective	38
Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK	37
Intergenerational persistence in latent socioeconomic status: evidence from Taiwan	35
Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail	32
Distributional divergence as a unifying measurement framework	31
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries	26
Fair crack of the whip? The distribution of augmented wealth in Australia from 2002 to 2018	26
The Income Gradient in Mortality during the Covid-19 Crisis: Evidence from Belgium	26
Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality	23
Which workers bear the burden of social distancing?	20
Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data	17
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
What drives regional economic inequalities in Tunisia? Evidence from unconditional quantile decomposition analysis	15
Opportunity advantage between income distributions	15
Social gradients in employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels	14
Polarization and its discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring	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
Wealth at birth and its effect on child academic achievement and behavioral problems	12
Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques	11

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?	9
Do late-life divorces produce greater gender inequalities? Evidence from administrative data	9
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
Assumption-light and computationally cheap inference on inequality measures by sample splitting: the Student t approach	7
Missing Poor in the U.S.	7
Absolute intragenerational mobility in the United States, 1962–2014	7
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression	6
The Black and white differential in income and consumption dynamics	6
Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour	6
Education development and income inequality: evidence from China	6
On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves	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
Family characteristics in U.S. intragenerational family income mobility, 1978–2014	5
Demographic behaviour and earnings inequality across OECD countries	5
Immigrant key workers: their contribution to Europe’s Covid-19 response	5
Correction to: Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	5
Correction to: Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low‑income dynamics approach for Chile	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
Intergenerational home ownership	5
The measurement of health inequalities: does status matter?	5
Central bank independence, income inequality and poverty: What do the data say?	5
Being poor and being NEET in Europe: Are these two sides of the same coin?	4
Credit and income mobility in Russia	4
Irrigation agriculture and income redistribution	4
COVID-19 and income inequality: evidence from monthly population registers	4
Uncovering Gatsby Curves	4
Representative endowments and uniform Gini orderings of multi-attribute welfare	4
About some difficulties with the functional forms of Lorenz curves	4
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
How does predistribution affect redistribution?	4
What interaction between income inequality and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?	3
What explains recent trends in income inequality in the European Union?	3
Book reviews	3
Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time	3
Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?	3
Disaggregated impacts of off-farm work participation on household vulnerability to food poverty in Ghana	3
A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of multidimensional relative poverty alleviation efforts in China	2
The Stock Market and the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States	2
The shortest confidence interval for the ratio of quantiles of the Dagum distribution	2
The sources and structure of wage inequality changes in the selected Central-Eastern European Countries	2
When government’s economic ideology shapes income redistribution. Empirical evidence from the OECD	2
Evaluating ordinal inequalities between groups	2
Inheritances and wealth inequality: a machine learning approach	2

The capital share and income inequality: Increasing gaps between micro and macro-data	2
Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach	2
Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?	2
Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile	2
Intergenerational earnings persistence and the provision of public goods: evidence from chile’s constitutional process	2
Sources of gender wage gaps for skilled workers in Latin American countries	2
A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters	2
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany	2
Functional distribution, personal income inequality, and top shares of income: do social classes still matter?	2
Income developments in the great recession: status for the Danish prime-age working population a decade following the onset of the Financial Crisis	1
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter	1
Income-dependent equivalence scales: A fresh look at German micro-data	1
Elasticity of marginal utility of consumption: the equal-sacrifice approach applied for the Czech Republic	1
Fairness with unequal productive skills among other-regarding individuals	1
What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics	1
Electoral cycles in inequality	1
Aspirations and investments in rural Myanmar	1
What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis for 27 European countries	1
Effect of regional disparities on national economic growth. A spatial panel data evidence from EU countries in 2000–2020	1
Identification-robust methods for comparing inequality with an application to regional disparities	1
Ordinal health disparities between population subgroups: measurement and multivariate analysis with an application to the North-South divide in England	1
Promoting education under distortionary taxation: equality of opportunity versus welfarism	1
The global distribution of gains from globalization	1
Does foreign aid reduce poverty? A dynamic panel data analysis for sub-Saharan African countries	1
Economic zones and local income inequality: Evidence from Indonesia	1
Poverty among same-sex couple families in the United States: Is there a premium for married couples?	1
A distributional decomposition of birthweight differences by maternal education: A comparison of France and the UK	1
The asymmetric effect of US local oil and gas reliance on income inequality in the fracking era	1
Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans	1
Top-end inequality and growth: empirical exploration of nonlinearities and the time dimension	1
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries	1
A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data	1
The impact of COVID-19 on households´ income in the EU	1
Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	1
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data	1
Understanding the role of inequality of opportunity in body mass index and waist circumference among Mexican adults	1
Annualizing labor market, inequality, and poverty indicators	1
Transformations that minimize the Gini index of a random variable and applications	1
Two decades of child-contingent policies and redistribution in Spain	1