This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …

This paper investigates the determinants of group membership, and in particular the effect of income inequality on … individual incentives to join economic groups. Drawing on a simple model, we show that an increase in inequality has an ambiguous … inequality leads to more or less group participation. Using survey data from rural Tanzania we find that inequality at the …

One often heard counter to the concern on rising income and wealth inequality is that it is wrong to focus on … inequality of outcomes in a “snapshot.” Intergenerational mobility and “equality of opportunity”, so the argument goes, is what … lower inequality not between individuals but between the dynasties to which they belong? And how does this pattern in turn …

This paper provides a comprehensive survey of seven aspects of rising inequality that are usually discussed separately …: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill …-biased technical change; inequality among high incomes; consumption inequality; geographical inequality; and international differences …

Disposable income inequality, as measured by the Gini coefficient and using Family Budget Survey data, increased very … inequality due to changes in the wage earnings component is mitigated by changes in the tax and transfer components in both … in the tax component to lowering the growth of inequality in the Czech Republic, while the reverse was true for Slovakia. …

absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …

This paper studies the impact of income inequality on fiscal conservatism when an increase in inequality affects the …, inequality will then be associated with less, rather than more, redistributive taxation. Furthermore, if the poor are liquidity … constrained then the positive association between inequality and fiscal conservatism will increase the persistence in the dynamics …