World Inequality Lab

Last April⭐️James K. Boyce⭐️ co-winner of the 2024 Global Inequality Research Award, gave a lecture at Sciences Po Paris. He shared insights from his research on the links between #inequality and the #environment, reflecting on the travels, encounters, and milestones that have shaped his intellectual journey. The full lecture is now available as the first in the GiRA series here 👉 https://lnkd.in/env2wA9i

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Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman fleshed out their response to Auten and Splinter’s paper published in the Journal of Political Economy (2024), which denies the scale of the increase in inequality in the United States since 1980. 👉 WIL researchers uncovered key mistakes in Auten and Splinter’s allocation of untaxed income. 👉 After fixing them and confronting them with existing evidence, Auten and Splinters’ methodology implies the same rise of inequality as Piketty, Saez and Zucman (2018). ▶ Read more: https://lnkd.in/evXKKpWw #Inequality #incomeinequality

📢 The WIL is #hiring a Research Assistant to support Theresa Neef on our global #GenderInequality project. Start: September | 8 months contract | 1 day/week. ❗️Deadline to apply: 15 July 👉Find out more: https://lnkd.in/gssvR26y

Comment les résultats des #ElectionsEuropéennes2024 s'inscrivent-ils dans l'histoire électorale française ? Que révèlent-ils sur l'évolution des clivages sociaux et électoraux en France ? 3 principaux résultats de la nouvelle étude de Julia Cagé et Thomas Piketty 👇 1️⃣ Des écarts de participation entre communes riches et pauvres à leur plus haut niveau historique. 2️⃣ Un embourgeoisement du bloc national-libéral (RN-LR-Reconquête), qui permet de mieux comprendre les alliances en cours et les raisons de fond poussant vers une rebipolarisation entre l'union des droites et l'union des gauches. 3️⃣ Une fracture territoriale entre le bloc de droite et le bloc de gauche qui s'est approfondie et atteint des niveaux inédits depuis l'entre-deux-guerres et la fin du 19e siècle. 👉 A lire ici: https://lnkd.in/eJyFMYZz

The replay of the #EqualityDebate on #VisionsofInequality with Branko Milanovic, Marie Renée Andreescu, Ulysse Lojkine and Thomas Piketty is now available on our YouTube channel!📺 https://lnkd.in/eaQ7RaHg

Debates on income and wealth #inequality in #India have gained significant momentum in recent weeks, partly following the release of our study https://lnkd.in/epwnvR7W. Extreme inequalities and their close link with social injustice can no longer be ignored. In a follow-up note, Nitin Kumar Bharti, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty and Anmol Somanchi propose a comprehensive #tax package on the ultra-wealthy that would: 👉 Include an annual #wealth tax and an #inheritance tax for those with net wealth exceeding INR 10 crores (roughly EUR 3.4 million PPP or EUR 1.2 million MER), equivalent to the top 0.04% of the adult population, who currently hold over a quarter of the total wealth. 👉Raise phenomenally large tax revenues: in a baseline scenario, a 2% annual tax on net wealth exceeding 10 crore and a 33% inheritance tax on estates exceeding 10 crores in valuation would generate a massive 2.73% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in revenues. 👉Need to be accompanied by explicit redistributive policies to support the poor, lower castes, and middle classes. For example, the baseline scenario would allow nearly doubling the current public spending on education, which has stagnated at 2.9% of gdp over the past 15 years, well below the 6% target set by the government’s own National Education Policy 2020. 👉Need to be extensively debated, with a consensus on specific details of the design emerging from a broader democratic debate on tax justice and wealth redistribution in India. 🔗 Read the note here: https://lnkd.in/e4YMhqFx #IndiaElection #TaxtheRich

🔴 On Tuesday 11 June 2024, at 18:30, the World Inequality Lab will host a discussion at Paris School of Economics on the relation between #inequality reduction and constitutional changes with: ⭐️ Timothy Kuhner, Associate Professor, Law Department, The University of Auckland, Author of *Tyranny of Greed* and *Capitalism v. Democracy* ⭐️ Julia Cagé, Professor, Economic Department, Sciences Po Paris ⭐️ Thomas Piketty, Professor, Economic Department, EHESS - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, PSE, co-director of the WIL ⏩ Find out more and register:https://lnkd.in/ejEr2kmC

📢 The WIL is #hiring 2 Research Assistants to assist our central team in updating data for macro and distribution series published on wid.world. Deadline to apply: 2 june! Profile: ✅ Master’s students wishing to take a break before starting a thesis or applying for other positions, or Master’s students wishing to take a break between M1 and M2 ✅ Proficient in programming with Stata ✅ Organizational skills, particularly regarding project management involving a large amount of code ✅ Ability to collaborate effectively on coding tasks ✅ Fluent in English (both oral and written) Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eYE9GMkC

Flick through our 2023 #ActivityReport 💫 ▶ https://lnkd.in/ebSkWRv3 🔸 #Climate Inequality Report 🔸 WID updates, including pre-tax and post-tax #inequalitydata 🔸 'Une Histoire du Conflit Politique' launch ...and more #Research #Events #Collaborations 🙏 Thanks to all WIL colleagues and Fellows for your work and dedication to our shared mission of researching and fighting inequality. ▶ https://lnkd.in/ebSkWRv3