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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The gender pay gap at the early stages of academic careers	141
How does predistribution affect redistribution?	106
Characterising life-cycle dynamics of annual days of work, wages, and cross-covariances	70
What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics	61
Transformations that minimize the Gini index of a random variable and applications	38
Walls of glass. Measuring deprivation in social participation	34
Does foreign aid reduce poverty? A dynamic panel data analysis for sub-Saharan African countries	32
Promoting education under distortionary taxation: equality of opportunity versus welfarism	32
Income-dependent equivalence scales: A fresh look at German micro-data	28
Job polarisation and household borrowing	26
Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru	25
The most likeable soccer players and the least likeable hockey players are in greater demand	25
Like father, like son? A comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US	19
Representative endowments and uniform Gini orderings of multi-attribute welfare	19
About some difficulties with the functional forms of Lorenz curves	15
A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data	13
Monetary compensation schemes during the COVID-19 pandemic: implications for household incomes, liquidity constraints and consumption across the EU	13
A European equivalence scale for public in-kind transfers	13
Traces of the past in income inequality	13
Annualizing labor market, inequality, and poverty indicators	13
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data	12
What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis for 27 European countries	12
Regional and ethnic inequalities in Malaysian poverty dynamics	12
Credit and income mobility in Russia	10
Urban poverty: Measurement theory and evidence from American cities	10

Combined and distributional effects of EPL reduction and hiring incentives: an assessment using the Italian “Jobs Act”	10
The asymmetric effect of US local oil and gas reliance on income inequality in the fracking era	9
Pareto models for top incomes and wealth	9
The measurement of health inequalities: does status matter?	8
Greater wealth, greater uncertainty: Changes in racial inequality in the Survey of Consumer Finances	8
The Income Gradient in Mortality during the Covid-19 Crisis: Evidence from Belgium	8
Occupational dualism and intergenerational educational mobility in the rural economy: evidence from China and India	7
A note on pessimism in education and its economic consequences	7
Education development and income inequality: evidence from China	6
Governmental support and multidimensional poverty alleviation: efficiency assessment in rural areas of Vietnam	6
What explains recent trends in income inequality in the European Union?	6
Book reviews	6
The Black and white differential in income and consumption dynamics	5
The dynamics of poverty in Europe: what has changed after the great recession?	5
Local inequality and crime: New evidence from South Africa	5
On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves	5
Intergenerational transmission of lockdown consequences: prognosis of the longer-run persistence of COVID-19 in Latin America	5
Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail	5
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions	5
Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour	5
Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time	5
Extending multidimensional poverty identification: from additive weights to minimal bundles	4
Disaggregated impacts of off-farm work participation on household vulnerability to food poverty in Ghana	4
Ordinal health disparities between population subgroups: measurement and multivariate analysis with an application to the North-South divide in England	4
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017	4
Missing Poor in the U.S.	4
Intergenerational persistence in latent socioeconomic status: evidence from Taiwan	4
Devolution in the U.S. Welfare Reform: Divergence and Degradation in State Benefits	4
What interaction between income inequality and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?	4
Spouses’ earnings association and inequality: A non-linear perspective	3
Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?	3
Fair income tax with endogenous productivities and a fresh start	3
Assumption-light and computationally cheap inference on inequality measures by sample splitting: the Student t approach	3
Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach	2
Correction to: Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low‑income dynamics approach for Chile	2
Absolute Poverty and Sound Public Finance in the Eurozone	2
Distributional impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic and the CARES Act	2
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression	2
Migrant wealth in Germany	2
Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality	2
The equity and efficiency effects of energy subsidy cost-recovery	2
A multivariate extension of the Lorenz curve based on copulas and a related multivariate Gini coefficient	2
Absolute intragenerational mobility in the United States, 1962–2014	2
Book reviews	2
Correction to: Extendingmultidimensional Poverty Identification: from Additive Weights to Minimal Bundles	2
Asset bubbles in explaining top income shares	2
Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK	2
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter	2
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries	1
Intergenerational home ownership	1

Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data	1
Measuring income inequality in social networks	1
Demographic behaviour and earnings inequality across OECD countries	1
Book reviews	1
Functional distribution, personal income inequality, and top shares of income: do social classes still matter?	1
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany	1
A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters	1
Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality	1
Missing the wealthy in the HFCS: micro problems with macro implications	1
Washing machine ownership and girls' school attendance: a cross-sectional analysis of adolescents in 19 middle-income countries	1
Identification-robust methods for comparing inequality with an application to regional disparities	1
Poverty among same-sex couple families in the United States: Is there a premium for married couples?	1
Borrower discouragement and multidimensional child deprivation in Ghana	1
Which workers bear the burden of social distancing?	1
Rank-correlations are not robust to differences in group inequality	1
Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?	1
Evaluating ordinal inequalities between groups	1
Moving up the social ladder? Wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries	1
Inequality, perception biases and trust	1
The heterogeneous effects of COVID-19 on labor market flows: evidence from administrative data	1
Does return migration with government support drive county economic convergence? Evidence from migrant workers returning to hometown for entrepreneurship in China	1
Optimal income support for lone parents in the Netherlands: are we there yet?	1
Fair crack of the whip? The distribution of augmented wealth in Australia from 2002 to 2018	1
Family characteristics in U.S. intragenerational family income mobility, 1978–2014	1
Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China	1
Effect of regional disparities on national economic growth. A spatial panel data evidence from EU countries in 2000–2020	1
Top-end inequality and growth: empirical exploration of nonlinearities and the time dimension	1
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	1
Openness, Income Inequality, and Happiness: Evidence from China	1
Skating on thin ice? Exposure to poverty among Canadians	1
Distributional national accounts for Australia, 1991–2018	1
Missing Top Income Recipients	1
The sources and structure of wage inequality changes in the selected Central-Eastern European Countries	1