Income Inequality in Richer and OECD Countries

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The psychological consequences of income inequality (2017, background): “The United States is not unique; income inequality has been rising throughout the industrialized world during the last 40 years (Brandolini & Smeeding, 2011; see Solt, 2016 for worldwide inequality statistics).”
Welfare regimes and social stratification (2015, background): “Measured either via top–bottom quintile ratios or Gini coefficients, income inequality matched that of Britain and was even greater than in Germany (Brandolini and Smeeding, 2009; Morrison, 2000).”
Gendered parenthood penalties and premiums across the earnings distribution in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (2014, background): “Aggregate levels of British and US income inequality are similar (Brandolini and Smeeding, 2009), whereas the historical strength of the Australian labor movement resulted in guaranteed “family wages” that lessened earnings inequality (Cooke, 2011; Whitehouse, 2004).”
The paradox of the social investment state: growth, employment and poverty in the Lisbon era (2011, background): “Brandolini and Smeeding (2009), as well as Kenworthy (2008), reach similar conclusions.”