poverty and income inequality have invited increasing volumes of research focusing on the nexus between equity and efficient … into a middle income country (ADB, 2014). This has stimulated the need to understand causes of inequality and poverty for … better formulate policies of fostering inclusive growth. Economic growth itself is an important source of welfare …

In a number of high-income countries over the past few decades there has been a large growth in income inequality and … applies the theory of optimal piecewise linear taxation to the issue of the taxation of top incomes. Our results suggest that … an appropriate response to rising inequality is a shift towards a more progressive multi-bracket income tax system, with …

This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990's …. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent than natives and that non-refugee immigrants utilize social …

stems from public assistance or welfare payments. In the 1990s, the Federal government mandated individual states to convert … the delivery of their welfare program benefits from paper checks to an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) system, whereby …

citizens’ support for the market by guaranteeing income redistribution to inequality-averse agents. Our identification strategy … face the same level of market development and economic inequality, as well as the same historically inherited politico …-economic culture. Democratic rights increase popular support for the market. This is true, in particular, of inequality-averse agents …

incentives effects of the reform. By use of the collective approach, individual or household welfare indices can be aggregated … within a social welfare function. Under previous assumptions, it is shown that the desirability of the reform may depend on … applications and questions the validity of normative tools (social welfare functions) when both intra- and inter …

approach by contrasting Canada and the US using comparable data. Canada dominates the US over the lower bi-dimensional welfare … also finds that welfare for both Canadians and Americans has not unambiguously improved during the last decade over the …