This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … correlation between the two variables is rather low in international perspective. Urban inequality as measured by the Gini …

Rising income inequality is an anglo Saxon problem. For most of the other OECD countries, earnings dispersion is rather … persistent. Vertical mobility is to be taken into account. The paper also looks at the relationship of income inequality, growth …

association of reduction of income inequality (redistribution) with subjective wellbeing. Their results provide evidence that … not only the outcome (inequality), but also the procedure (redistribution) that leads to the outcome influences subjective … people in Europe are negatively affected by income inequality, whereas reduction of inequality has a positive effect on well …

show that people do care about fairness in their demand for redistribution. In this article, in the spirit of the new … behavior over redistribution as the interaction between (a) an automatic cognitive process which quickly generates intuitions … on the fair level of redistribution, (b) a rational self-oriented reasoning which controls the feeling of guilt …

ensuing wage inequality. We consider several instruments of economic policy: a wage tax to redistribute income between skilled … and unskilled workers; sector-specific consumption taxes and profit taxes to affect inter-sectoral wage inequality; sector … instrument to reduce the wage inequality after trade liberalization are training subsidies. They increase the supply of skilled …

This paper analyzes intergenerational redistribution in a 2-period overlapping-generations model of a representative … democracy. The model incorporates redistribution between generations and redistribution within generations, allowing for … political economy equilibrium is not Pareto-efficient. Redistribution results in equal consumption levels of individuals with …

democracy with asymmetric information. The model considers not only redistribution between generations but also redistribution …, consumption levels are perfectly equalized within both generations. Second, a redistribution bias exists in favor of the old …