and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential usefulness of apparently inefficient policy … instruments in overcoming the self-selection constraints on redistribution and limiting the damage that ill …, while there are circumstances in which redistribution may plausibly generate efficiency gains, the likelihood that some …

-2006. While there has been no increase in aggregate happiness, inequality in happiness has fallen substantially since the 1970s … happiness by education have widened substantially. We develop an integrated approach to measuring inequality and decomposing … changes in the distribution of happiness, finding a pervasive decline in within-group inequality during the 1970s and 1980s …

rise in income inequality. Poverty has increased sharply with an estimated 18.5% of the population on incomes below the …

The paper investigates how comparisons of multivariate inequality can be made robust to varying the intensity of focus … and follows the dominance approach to making inequality comparisons. By focusing on those below a multidimensional … inequality “frontier”, we are able to reconcile the literature on multivariate relative poverty and multivariate inequality. Some …

redistribution to the poor in developing countries hit by the food price crisis. This recommendation makes sense when the poor are …

household market income inequality, due to the redistributive effect of tax and transfer systems, but redistribution differs …, but redistribution differs widely across countries. This paper maps income inequality for all OECD countries across …Countries differ widely with respect to the level of labour income inequality among individuals of working age. Labour …

Income inequality and relative poverty in the United States are among the highest in the OECD and have substantially … of growth. The present paper analyses the causes of US income inequality and relative poverty in an OECD context … degree, high income inequality is attributable to the large dispersion of earned income, which should be addressed by …