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 2021-06-01 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
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
Regional Well-Being and its Inequality in the OECD Member Countries	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
Chasing the shadow: unreported wage payments and income inequality	13
Polarization and its discontents: Morocco before and after the Arab Spring	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
The long and the short of it: inheritance and wealth in Ireland	11

Income inequality and economic growth in BRICS: insights from non-parametric techniques	11
Do late-life divorces produce greater gender inequalities? Evidence from administrative data	9
Inequality and Social Distancing during the Pandemic	9
Enforcing ‘Equal Pay for Equal Work’ in the EU: what would it take?	9
The impact of FDI income on income shares in home countries	8
Exploring socioeconomic-related inequality in children’s cognitive achievement in Peru	8
The fall in income inequality during COVID-19 in four European countries	8
Missing Poor in the U.S.	7
Absolute intragenerational mobility in the United States, 1962–2014	7
Assumption-light and computationally cheap inference on inequality measures by sample splitting: the Student t approach	7
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
Gender wage inequality: new evidence from penalized expectile regression	6
The Black and white differential in income and consumption dynamics	6
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
Is that really a Kuznets curve? Turning points for income inequality in China	5