The paper examines the impact of income inequality and mobility on income redistribution in a modified median voter … model where redistributive conflict takes place both between educational groups and age-groups. The effects of inequality … and mobility are not unambiguous but depend on factors such as how mobility changes in different groups and causes of …

inequality and widening gaps between rich and poor, and urban and rural. It is therefore it is important to examine the … interrelationships between inequality and economic growth. This paper develops a simple model to establish that the change in income …, inequality and growth bear a non-linear relationship: for low values of inequality, economic growth rate is an inverted U …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference … differences between standard poverty and inequality measures based on observed income and measures that are calculated based on …

Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … tax have a significant negative effect on the household GINI index and on poverty. We also examine three alternative … rents-induced inequality. …

unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …, global inequality and poverty would be substantially underestimated if the dependence between the income and health … indicates that global inequality would be underestimated if within-country inequality is not taken into account. Moreover …

Previous estimates of inequality of opportunity (IOp) are lower bounds because of the unobservability of the full set …, is important for the acceptance of (some) inequality and the design of redistributive policies as underestimating the … differences in social mobility and persistence. …