absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally …

gene-environment interaction effects. This literature points out specific policy areas which may compensate individuals …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … at the same time a shift in the burden of taxation from the top to the middle of the income distribution. This paper … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

rent in the tax base might affect inequality in each of the countries considered. Housing taxation appears to be a … promising avenue for raising additional revenues, or lightening taxation of labour, with no inequality-increasing side-effects. …

change the international and national distribution of skills and thereby equality in the receiving society. This paper …

This paper develops methods for decomposing changes in the income distribution using subgroup decompositions of the … are analogous to the widely-used decompositions of inequality indices by population subgroup, except that they summarize … multiple features of the income distribution (using graphs), rather than focusing on a specific feature such as dispersion, and …

depends positively on intellectual property, a social planner which cares about income distribution may in principle want to …

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over … possible rationale for recent inequality developments. …