We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

will tend to be higher in countries with higher inequality and with greater pro-rich bias in the political system …. Conversely, the use of income tax will be higher in countries with lower inequality and less pro-rich bias. The model also … predicts that although inequality and political bias will have an impact on the composition of revenue, it will have no effect …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …

inequality of opportunity, as well as to greater output. This provides an additional rationale for an active role for the …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

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 …

Inequality measurement involves explicit or implicit value judgements. The subjective approach to inequality …