In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the "very unhappy" and the "perfectly happy". Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …

regional policy, top tax rates, inequality, housing and planning, crime, climate change and energy. …

with a role for capital income (dividends, capital gains, etc.). In the global financial crisis of 2008-09 inequality fell …, but has been stable since then. It is too soon to tell whether inequality will resume its rising trend as the economy … increasingly important for inequality as it is rising faster than aggregate income, and the concentration of capital income is much …

This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico … entire rise in inequality at the bottom of the distribution. Our result challenges the widespread perception that trade … induced shocks are the single most important factor behind the recent rise in earnings inequality in several less developed …

growing inequality in PC ownership over the 1980s and 1990s. Analysis of ownership patterns of four other household consumer … durables suggests that there may be significant limitations to relying solely on the market to eradicate PC inequality quickly. …

rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using …

This paper reviews a new framework for analyzing the interrelationship between inequality, unemployment, labor market …. It implies that the opening of trade may raise inequality and unemployment, but always raises welfare. Unilateral …