This paper studies determinants of income inequality using a newly assembled panel of 16 countries over the entire …

, starting from levels of inequality approximately equal to those in other Western countries at the time, the income share of the …

-opment? How do the facts relate to proposed theories about changes in inequality? We present the main inequality trends, in some …-called top income literature and new evidence on wealth concentration. The picture that emerges shows that inequality was … increasing concentration, but in most cases inequality seems to have been relatively constant at a high level in the nineteenth …

This paper models the interaction between individuals' identity choices and redistribution. Both redistributive polices …, redistribution is highest when society is ethnically homogenous, but the effect of ethnic diversity on redistribution is not … necessarily monotonic. Second, when income inequality is low, an increase in income inequality might induce the poor to identify …

inequality increased. We introduce new ways of approximating the effects of international flows and find that the recent increase … in Swedish wealth inequality is likely to be larger than what official estimates suggest. …

This paper reviews the literature on economic inequality and trust. Cross-country studies, within-country studies, and … experiments all suggest that economic inequality exerts a negative influence on trust. Four mechanisms are proposed to explain the … negative relationship: social ties (or networks), inference on social relationships (to see inequality as a signal of …