The unequal inequality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Autor/in	Darvas, Zsolt
Institution	Brussels European and Global Economic Laboratory
Titel	The unequal inequality impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die ungleichen Auswirkungen der COVID-19-Pandemie auf die Ungleichheit.
Quelle	Brussels (2021), 23 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Working paper / Bruegel. 2021,06
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Soziale Ungleichheit; Armut; Einkommensverteilung; Soziale Ungleichheit; Welt; Wirtschaftswachstum; Auswirkung; Internationaler Vergleich; Qualifikation; Bruttoinlandsprodukt; Rezession; Pandemie; Europäische Union; Pandemie; Armut; Beschäftigungseffekt; Bruttoinlandsprodukt; Einkommensverteilung; Rezession; Wirtschaftswachstum; Qualifikation; Internationaler Vergleich; Auswirkung; Welt; Europäische Union
Abstract	"GDP contractions are typically associated with within-country income inequality increases. While offi cial income inequality data for 2020 will not be available for about two years, the already available employment data for 2020 shows that the diff erence between highly-educated and low-educated people in terms of job losses is correlated with the economic shock from the COVID-19 pandemic, suggesting that the depth of the economic recession is related to the increase in within-country income inequality in 2020. Scenarios based on historical patterns of recessions and within-country income inequality increases suggest relatively small increases in global income inequality in 2020. Factors mitigating global inequality increases in 2020 include larger GDP per-capita declines in richer advanced countries than in poorer emerging and developing countries, and the positive GDP growth of China, which suggests that within-country inequality in the world's most populous country might have not changed much in 2020. In contrast, it is quite likely there was a signifi cant increase in European Union income inequality in 2020, partly reversing the decline during the previous decades." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2022/2