education is no longer an individual exercise of present and future utility maximisation as suggested by more formal human …

The objective of this work is to analyse the income inequality in the 15 EU countries during the convergence process to … whether the inequality of income has diminished within and between countries over time. Gini's generalised family indices … the results obtained to different degrees of inequality aversion and to different equivalence scales, taking into account …

This note is motivated by recent arguments made by Martin Feldstein in which the relevance of inequality is dismissed … (if everybody's income goes up, who cares if inequality is up too?), and the argument is made that only poverty … alleviation should matter. This note shows that we all do care about inequality, and to hold that we should be concerned with …

This paper analyses changes in the distribution of equivalised gross household income and income inequality in New … these factors on alternative summary measures of inequality over the period. We find that changes in household structure and … in the socio-demographic characteristics of households are the main factors contributing to the rise in inequality, while …

poor growth, then summarizing the linkages between inequality, poverty, and pro poor growth, before proceeding to analyze …

"inter term tax variability" (political budget cycles) during the tenure of a politician. The effect of inequality on the …

One of the main objectives of this paper is to show the dynamics that relates inequality, social capital and … of equilibria: one with a low level of social capital and high level of inequality, supported by institutions created … endogenously by the community; and on the other hand, an equilibrium with a high level of social capital, low inequality and …