Functional and personal market income inequality: structural, institutional and policy drivers
| Componente | Categoria |
|---|---|
| Federico D'Amario | Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente non strutturato del gruppo di ricerca / PhD/Assegnista/Specializzando member non structured of the research group |
| Dario Guarascio | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca / Structured participants in the research project |
| Gabriele Palomba | Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente non strutturato del gruppo di ricerca / PhD/Assegnista/Specializzando member non structured of the research group |
| Luca Zamparelli | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca / Structured participants in the research project |
| Francesco Colcerasa | Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente non strutturato del gruppo di ricerca / PhD/Assegnista/Specializzando member non structured of the research group |
| Giuseppe Croce | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca / Structured participants in the research project |
| Emanuela Ghignoni | Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca / Structured participants in the research project |
| Giovanni Gallo | Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente non strutturato del gruppo di ricerca / PhD/Assegnista/Specializzando member non structured of the research group |
| Componente | Qualifica | Struttura | Categoria |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francesco Bloise | Assegnista di ricerca | Università di Roma 3 | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca / Other aggregate personnel Sapienza or other institution, holders of research scholarships |
| Francesco Vona | Professore | OFCE-SCIENCES PO, NIZZA | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca / Other aggregate personnel Sapienza or other institution, holders of research scholarships |
| Paolo Naticchioni | Professore | Università di Roma 3 e INPS | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca / Other aggregate personnel Sapienza or other institution, holders of research scholarships |
| Carlo Fiorio | Professore | Università di Milano | Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca / Other aggregate personnel Sapienza or other institution, holders of research scholarships |
The project will focus on features, trends and drivers of market income inequality, where we consider all incomes from market sources before tax and transfers redistribution. Actually, empirical evidence shows that in all countries the bulk of personal inequality is imputable to gross earnings and capital incomes and market income inequality has increased at a much faster pace than disposable income inequality. Likewise, available data show a worrying decreasing pattern of the wage share, the usual indicator of functional distribution.
The project contributes to the literature about economic inequality pursuing two main broad objectives, each developed in a research line (RL) with various papers as deliverables:
i) provide original evidence on personal and functional market income inequality levels, characteristics and trends over a large set of countries - according to different inequality measures and income concepts, and investigating heterogenous effects within and between various population subgroups - also considering the effects of the COVID-19 emergency (RL1);
ii) analyse the role played by main drivers of inequality, also distinguishing structural and institutional/policy drivers, thus providing an overarching picture of the mechanisms behind market income inequality (RL2). In more detail, this RL will inquire the role of major structural drivers - linked to technological change, globalisation, and discrimination against some groups of individuals - and institutional/policy drivers, related to product market competition and macroeconomic policies.
The many papers which will be developed in the project will mostly follow an empirical approach, using several different survey and administrative datasets. Some analyses will concentrate on the case of Italy, while others, according to data availability, will follow an international comparative perspective.