In the U.S., the Covid-19 pandemic brought two pre-existing social and economic challenges into stark focus. The first is the long-standing issue of opportunity inequality and the economic chasm that ...

The beliefs someone holds and the environment where they live and work shape how much economic inequality people report seeing, according to new research from the University at Buffalo School of ...

The U.S. may have the highest level of income inequality of the G7 nations, but new research suggests that disparity has actually stabilized over the last decade, thanks to rapid growth in wages for ...

When solving the general smooth nonlinear and possibly nonconvex optimization problem involving equality and/or inequality constraints, an approximate first-order critical point of accuracy ϵ can be ...

Between 2008 and 2013, global inequality fell for the first time since the industrial revolution. The historic fall in global inequality was driven by robust growth in average incomes in populous ...

Despite the severity of the shock to the U.S. labor market from the coronavirus pandemic, the earnings of employed workers overall were largely unaffected by the pandemic. Inequality in earnings did ...