the Brazilian case, what could explain the tenacity of inequality in the country? To answer this, the paper, grounded in … new institutionalism theory, employed a process-tracing method to explore the causes of the continuity of unequal income …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

life-cycle model, we find that redistribution by taxes and transfers off sets 54% of the inequality in lifetime earnings …

expanded in a consistent way to any welfare measure;and can be assessed for reliability usingstandard statistical theory …, as well as the use of distributional approxima-tions. For non-separable inequality measures we derive specific formulas …

general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … variation in inequality with respect to import protection. Results are consistent with predictions of the factor-intensity model …

-cycle model, we determine that taxes and transfers offset 45% of lifetime earnings inequality attributed to differences in …