Economic Inequality: Trends, Causes and Consequences

The project aims to spark fresh interest in the study of inequality, by comparing inequality across countries and analysing the causes and consequences of changing inequality. The research will focus on three areas wealth inequality, income mobility, and top incomes that have not been sufficiently studied in the past. By combining data from cross-sectional surveys, panel surveys, tax records and rich lists, the research will develop new consistent measures of inequality, and analyse them to learn about the factors that affect and are affected by inequality.