COVID-19 and income inequality: evidence from monthly population registers.

IF 3.6 3区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS Journal of Economic Inequality Pub Date : 2023-03-15 DOI:10.1007/s10888-022-09560-8

Nikolay Angelov, Daniel Waldenström

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We measure the distributional impact of the COVID-19 pandemic using newly released population register data in Sweden. Monthly earnings inequality increased during the pandemic, and the key driver is income losses among low-paid individuals while middle- and high-income earners were almost unaffected. In terms of employment, as measured by having positive monthly earnings, the pandemic had a larger negative impact on private-sector workers and on women. In terms of earnings conditional on being employed, the effect was still more negative for women, but less negative for private-sector workers compared to publicly employed. Using data on individual take-up of government COVID-19 support, we show that policy significantly dampened the inequality increase, but did not fully offset it. Annual total market income inequality, which also includes capital income and taxable transfers, shows similar patterns of increasing inequality during the pandemic.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10888-022-09560-8.

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新冠肺炎与收入不平等：每月人口登记的证据。

我们使用瑞典最新发布的人口登记数据来衡量新冠肺炎大流行的分布影响。疫情期间，月收入不平等加剧，主要驱动因素是低收入者的收入损失，而中高收入者几乎没有受到影响。就就业而言，以月收入为正来衡量，疫情对私营部门工人和妇女产生了更大的负面影响。就以就业为条件的收入而言，与公共就业相比，这种影响对女性的负面影响更大，但对私营部门工人的负面影响更小。利用个人接受新冠肺炎政府支持的数据，我们发现，政策显著抑制了不平等的加剧，但并没有完全抵消。年度总市场收入不平等，包括资本收入和应税转移，在疫情期间显示出类似的不平等加剧模式。补充信息：在线版本包含补充材料，请访问10.1007/s10888-022-09560-8。

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Journal of Economic Inequality ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Economic Inequality provides a forum for analysis of ''economic inequality'', broadly defined. Its scope includes: · Theoretical and empirical analysis· Monetary measures of ''well-being'' such as earnings, income, consumption, and wealth; non-monetary measures such as educational achievement and health and health care; multidimensional measures· Inequality and poverty within and between countries, and globally, and their trends over time· Inequalities of opportunity· Income mobility and poverty persistence· The factor distribution of income· Differences in ''well-being'' between socioeconomic groups, for example between men and women, generations, or ethnic groups· The effects of inequality on macroeconomic and other phenomena, and vice versa· Related statistical methods and data issues · Related policy analysis Papers need to prioritize the ''economic inequality'' dimension. For example, papers about trade and inequality, or inequality and growth, should not primarily be about trade or growth (in which case they should target a different journal). The same is true for papers considering the inter-relationships between the income distribution and the labour market, public policy, or demography. Officially cited as: J Econ Inequal

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