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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Migrant wealth in Germany	148
Local inequality and crime: New evidence from South Africa	82
Spouses’ earnings association and inequality: A non-linear perspective	68
Twenty Years and Counting: Thoughts about Measuring the Upper Tail	37
Intergenerational persistence in latent socioeconomic status: evidence from Taiwan	37
Distributional divergence as a unifying measurement framework	34
Household Earnings and Income Volatility in the UK, 2009–2017	32
A note on Sen’s representation of the Gini coefficient: Revision and repercussions	27
The Income Gradient in Mortality during the Covid-19 Crisis: Evidence from Belgium	26
Top-income adjustments and official statistics on income distribution: the case of the UK	25
Fair crack of the whip? The distribution of augmented wealth in Australia from 2002 to 2018	20
Book reviews for the Journal of Economic Inequality	17
Drawing a Line: Comparing the Estimation of Top Incomes between Tax Data and Household Survey Data	16
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries	16
What drives regional economic inequalities in Tunisia? Evidence from unconditional quantile decomposition analysis	15
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
Which workers bear the burden of social distancing?	15
Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality	14
Social gradients in employment during and after the COVID-19 pandemic	14
Inequality of opportunity in educational achievement in Western Europe: contributors and channels	11
Polarization and its discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring	11
Inequality of opportunity in access to and consumption of modern energy in Togo: A parametric approach	10
Wealth at birth and its effect on child academic achievement and behavioral problems	9
Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques	9
Do late-life divorces produce greater gender inequalities? Evidence from administrative data	9

The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland	9
Equivalence scales revisited: Evidence from subjective data	9
Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic	8
Enforcing ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ in the EU: what would it take?	8
The impact of FDI income on income shares in home countries	8
Assumption-light and computationally cheap inference on inequality measures by sample splitting: the Student t approach	7
The fall in income inequality during COVID-19 in four European countries	7
The Black and white differential in income and consumption dynamics	7
Absolute intragenerational mobility in the United States, 1962–2014	7
Missing Poor in the U.S.	7
Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru	7
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression	6
Correction to: Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	6
The dynamics of poverty in Europe: what has changed after the great recession?	6
On the social welfare interpretation of growth incidence curves	6
Education development and income inequality: evidence from China	6
Intergenerational home ownership	5
Family characteristics in U.S. intragenerational family income mobility, 1978–2014	5
The Use of Distributional National Accounts in Better Capturing the Top Tail of the Distribution	5
Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China	5
Elite Incomes Around the World: Command over Tradables, Nontradables and Labour	5
Demographic behaviour and earnings inequality across OECD countries	5
Correction to: Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low‑income dynamics approach for Chile	5
COVID-19 and income inequality: evidence from monthly population registers	4
Parenthood and the distribution of intra-household inequalities in wellbeing	4
Central bank independence, income inequality and poverty: What do the data say?	4
Irrigation agriculture and income redistribution	4
Inequality and income mobility: the case of targeted and universal interventions in India	4
Being poor and being NEET in Europe: Are these two sides of the same coin?	4
About some difficulties with the functional forms of Lorenz curves	4
How does predistribution affect redistribution?	4
Immigrant key workers: their contribution to Europe’s Covid-19 response	4
Uncovering Gatsby Curves	4
Representative endowments and uniform Gini orderings of multi-attribute welfare	4
Book reviews	3
What interaction between income inequality and structural transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa?	3
Credit and income mobility in Russia	3
Life may be unfair, but do democracies make it any less burdensome?	3
Like father, like son? A comparison of absolute and relative intergenerational labour income mobility in Germany and the US	3
Distributional effects of macroeconomic shocks in real-time	3
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
A false divide? Providing information about inequality aligns preferences for redistribution between right- and left-wing voters	2
Intergenerational earnings persistence and the provision of public goods: evidence from chile’s constitutional process	2
Did the UK policy response to Covid-19 protect household incomes?	2
Disaggregated impacts of off-farm work participation on household vulnerability to food poverty in Ghana	2
Differential Exposure to Climate Change? Evidence from the 2021 Floods in Germany	2
Evaluating ordinal inequalities between groups	2
A statistical evaluation of the effectiveness of multidimensional relative poverty alleviation efforts in China	2
When government’s economic ideology shapes income redistribution. Empirical evidence from the OECD	2

Inequality ranking of ordered categorical distributions: A status-based approach	2
Degrees of vulnerability to poverty: a low-income dynamics approach for Chile	2
Functional distribution, personal income inequality, and top shares of income: do social classes still matter?	2
Inheritances and wealth inequality: a machine learning approach	2
The effects of restricted access to healthcare on vulnerable people: an analysis of the determinants of health outcomes among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Poverty among same-sex couple families in the United States: Is there a premium for married couples?	1
The global distribution of gains from globalization	1
A novel approach to measure poverty based on calorie deprivation - Evidence from household-level data	1
Annualizing labor market, inequality, and poverty indicators	1
Economic zones and local income inequality: Evidence from Indonesia	1
Collective negative shocks and preferences for redistribution: Evidence from the COVID-19 crisis in Germany	1
What are the economic costs of childhood socio-economic disadvantage? Evidence from a pathway analysis for 27 European countries	1
What’s behind pro-poor growth? An investigation of its drivers and dynamics	1
Projecting the impact of COVID-19 on education and intergenerational mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa	1
Effect of regional disparities on national economic growth. A spatial panel data evidence from EU countries in 2000–2020	1
Intergenerational income mobility in Turkey	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
Perpetuating wage inequality: evidence from salary history bans	1
Recovering income distribution in the presence of interval-censored data	1
Income-dependent equivalence scales: A fresh look at German micro-data	1
The shortest confidence interval for the ratio of quantiles of the Dagum distribution	1
Electoral cycles in inequality	1
Fairness with unequal productive skills among other-regarding individuals	1
Elasticity of marginal utility of consumption: the equal-sacrifice approach applied for the Czech Republic	1
Two decades of child-contingent policies and redistribution in Spain	1
Identification-robust methods for comparing inequality with an application to regional disparities	1
When perception shapes reality: Effects of perceived income inequality and social mobility on affective polarization	1
Low-pay work and the risk of poverty: a dynamic analysis for European countries	1
The regression approach to the measurement and decomposition of the multidimensional Watts poverty index	1
Long-term evolution of inequality of opportunity: Educated parents still matter	1
The asymmetric effect of US local oil and gas reliance on income inequality in the fracking era	1
Promoting education under distortionary taxation: equality of opportunity versus welfarism	1
A distributional decomposition of birthweight differences by maternal education: A comparison of France and the UK	1
Understanding the role of inequality of opportunity in body mass index and waist circumference among Mexican adults	1
The Stock Market and the Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States	1
Ordinal health disparities between population subgroups: measurement and multivariate analysis with an application to the North-South divide in England	1
The two-sample two-stage least squares method to estimate the intergenerational earnings elasticity	1
How did COVID affect savings and wealth? An empirical study in South Africa	1
Mind the gap: effects of the national minimum wage on the gender wage gap of full-time workers in Germany	1
Top-end inequality and growth: empirical exploration of nonlinearities and the time dimension	1