The Journal of Economic Inequality
Last updated ISSN 1569-1721
The Journal of Economic Inequality is published by Springer Science+Business Media in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,290.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The Journal of Economic Inequality concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Income, Poverty, and Inequality
- Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies
- Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Economic theories and models
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Economic Theory and Policy
- Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Springer Science+Business Media |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1569-1721, 1573-8701 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,290 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 785 |
| Publishing since | 2003 |
| Journal website | www.springer.com/journal/10888 |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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