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🧾 Newsletter Release: Inequality Matters – Issue 38, June 2026 This issue features three articles (abstracts below); data news and releases; the newest additions to LIS working papers and publications; and general news, events and updates at LIS. Happy reading! “A Slow Convergence? Intra-couple Division of Labour and Related Perceptions in South Korea, 2004–2024” by Keon Kim and Kun Lee: This article examines the household division of paid and unpaid work among Korean couples aged 25–49 over the period 2004–2024, using five waves of the Korean Time Use Survey. Drawing on a typology of six couple types based on relative time allocations, it analyses how these arrangements have evolved over two decades and explores their association with housework allocation and general life satisfaction. “Two Decades of Income Evolution in Belgium: Regional Disparities and the Impact of Covid-19“ by Carmen Petrovici: This article analyses the evolution of household disposable income across Belgium’s three regions (Brussels, Flanders, and Wallonia) over the period 2004–2024, with a particular focus on the Covid-19 crisis. It examines how disposable income, social benefits, and market income evolved differently across regions, and explores the extent to which government measures, notably temporary unemployment schemes, may have cushioned the impact of the crisis on household living standards. “The Anatomy of Consumption Inequality: What Drives Differences Across Countries?” by Gintarė Mažeikaitė: This article analyses consumption inequality across nine countries spanning low- to high-income economies, including Mali, Laos, Palestine, Peru, Georgia, France, Italy, the UK, and the US. Using the Lerman-Yitzhaki decomposition, it breaks down the Gini coefficient into individual expenditure components to examine which categories drive inequality most and whether these patterns differ systematically across national contexts. 👉 Discover the full issue here: https://lnkd.in/d45dEtSG ✉️ Don't forget to subscribe to the LIS Newsletter here: https://lnkd.in/ePBgb9Gc