income inequality during periods of private debt overhang. In contrast, there are no discernible distributional effects when …

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 …

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 …

In this paper, we study how the tax-and-transfer system reduces the inequality of lifetime income by redistributing … offsets around half of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is due to differences in skill endowments. At the same time …, taxes and transfers mitigate around 60% of the inequality in lifetime earnings that is attributable to employment and health …

Equivalence Scales are a tool for removing the heterogeneity of household sizes in the measurement of inequality, and …

inequality. …