This paper examines the political economy of redistribution when voters have asymmetric information about the … "inter term tax variability" (political budget cycles) during the tenure of a politician. The effect of inequality on the …

Unlike aversion to inequality, aversion to poverty resists formalization in welfare economics. One way to assign …. However, the resulting redistribution scheme prioritizes headcount-reducing transfers to the borderline poor over transfers to … valued welfare measure. It proposes a lexicographic L*-ordering, where the first rank criterion corresponds to an inequality …

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 …

aggregate relations. This paper establishes a bridge between the aggregation and the inequality and growth literature by …, implying that increases in income inequality may be unambiguously associated with temporary increases in a country’s growth …-run effects of income inequality may suffer from aggregation bias if the temporary effects of the MLD changes are not considered …

main loser in the structural changes that affect the position of Europe in the 21st Century. The world system approach … nature (with its ongoing shifts favoring mainly the Asia – Pacific region) as well. Savings rate in Europe almost everywhere … unequal transfer (ERDI) from 1998 to 2002.. No “old” European country improved its position, on the contrary, “old Europe …

This article uses data from the 1998 European Union Household Panel to study economic inequality in Spain. It reports … data on the Spanish distributions of income, labor income, and capital income, and on related features of inequality, such …

)VERBRAUCHERINNENSCHUTZ IN EUROPA 101 4) SOZIALE SICHERHEIT IM GEEINTEN EUROPA 105 5) DIE ERWEITERUNG DER EUROPÄISCHEN UNION 111 TEIL B …

With all the talk in Europe about “Islam” and “Muslim culture” it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence … structural changes that affect the position of Europe in the 21st Century. …

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 …