wealth households but high relative measures of wealth inequality. Italian households hold very little debt and are much more … of wealth inequality such as the Gini coefficient even though absolute gaps between high and low wealth households have …

wealth and levels of household wealth inequality. The findings of the paper suggest that the biggest share of cross …

Although most US income inequality research is based on public-use March CPS data, a new wave of research using IRS tax …-return data reports substantially faster inequality growth for recent years. We show that these apparently inconsistent estimates … are largely reconciled when the income distribution and inequality are defined the same way. Using internal CPS data for …

This paper employs a decomposition analysis of inequality by income source to understand and explain particular aspects … of income inequality in Greece. The results suggest that entrepreneurial income is the most significant contributor to … overall inequality in Greece. It is also shown that there is a weak redistributive impact of taxes and social security …

income inequality in Greece. This analysis is quite revealing for understanding and explaining income idfferences among … certain population subgroups with apparent policy implications. The degree to which overall inequality is attributable to … inequality between these sub groups or to inequality within them is investigated, employing a decomposition analysis by …

This paper investigates the relationship between growth and inequality from a demographic point of view. In an extended … inequality is at first positive and then may be negative in the process of population aging. The results are consistent with the …

will tend to be higher in countries with higher inequality and with greater pro-rich bias in the political system …. Conversely, the use of income tax will be higher in countries with lower inequality and less pro-rich bias. The model also … predicts that although inequality and political bias will have an impact on the composition of revenue, it will have no effect …

evaluation comprise the alleviation of poverty and the reduction in income inequality, whilst the diversity of opinions about …