the Spanish economy to regain competitiveness and create jobs. But the impact of these labor reforms on income inequality …

In this paper we analyze the dynamics among past major pandemics, economic growth, inequality, and social unrest. We … increase in social unrest by reducing output and increasing inequality. We also find that higher social unrest, in turn, is … associated with lower ourput and higher inequality, pointing to a vicious cycle. Our results suggest that without policy measures …

The COVID-19 pandemic risks exacerbating inequality in Asia. High frequency labor surveys show that the pandemic is … to increase inequalities. As a result, income inequality, which was already high and rising in Asia before the pandemic …

role of social assistance and commodity boom in Brazil, and the inequality puzzle in Egypt. The paper finds that there is a …

ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not …

as its implications for income inequality. The main finding is that young, less educated, and low skilled workers, as … hypothesize that income inequality likely has increased due to the pandemic. Policies aiming at reducing inequality in the labor …

inequality has reduced long distance migration, the type most linked to jobs. For those migrating uphill, from a less to a more … dominate the incentives from higher earnings. By contrast, increasing income inequality drives the fall in downhill migration …

We examine the extent to which declining manufacturing employment may have contributed to increasing inequality in …: the high initial manufacturing wage premium and the high level of income inequality. The manufacturing wage premium … declined between the 1980s and the 2000s in the United States, but it does not explain the contemporaneous rise in inequality …