World Inequality Report (2022): Regularities in Inequalities
The World Inequality Report (2022) (WIR-2022) is out and has already gained much attention. The report includes chapters on global income and wealth inequality, environmental inequalities and inequalities through women's perspectives, and international tax policies. They were nice enough to share some aggregates they have calculated, together with the descriptions of their methodologies. I felt like exploring the data a little bit. An Unequal World I feel responsible for starting with emphasizing a first observation WIR-2022 made: "We live in a data-abundant world, and yet we lack basic information about inequality." Not only do we live in a data-abundant world, but also with an abundance of people trained in statistics, able to use software and ask interesting questions, yet we can't utilize neither effectively. Highly restricted access to data (and publications for the same reason) constitute a massive obstacle in front of our field's development. According to ...