Recent discussions about rising inequality in industrialized countries have triggered calls for more government … redistributional policies are indeed able to combat inequality. This paper contributes to this relevant research question by using … different contextual country-level data sources to study inequality trends in OECD countries since the 1980s. We first …

How do different components of the tax and transfer systems affect disposable income inequality? This paper explores … the redistributive effects of different tax benefit instruments in the enlarged EU based on two approaches. Inequality … analysis based on the standard approach suggests that benefits are the most important factor reducing inequality in the …

This paper explores if more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if … with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System GMM estimator and use the presumably random incidence of certain … reduces inequality levels. The result is robust with respect to the instrument count and different data restrictions. Looking …

income inequality. The increase in income inequality can be avoided by combining a higher tax rate with a higher basic …

Was the increase in income inequality in the US due to permanent shocks or merely to an increase in the variance of … changes, transitory and permanent shocks and estimate the contribution of each to total inequality. Our model fits the joint … evolution of consumption and income inequality well and delivers two main results. First, we find that permanent changes in …

is evidence about real income levels and inequality, and the prevalence of affluence and of poverty. …