rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using … attitudinal data. We show that the demand for redistribution, having shown considerable variation over time, is at an all-time low …

context of public attitudes to inequality and different forms of redistribution. It compares the distributional effects of the … public attitudes. However, delays between Budget announcements and implementation meant that inequality and relative poverty …

Drawing on recent work concerning the statistical robustness of inequality statistics we examine the sensitivity of … poverty indices to data contamination using the concept of the influence function. We show that poverty and inequality indices …

In spite of the great U-turn that saw income inequality rise in Western countries in the 1980s, happiness inequality … share of both the “very unhappy” and the “perfectly happy”. Lower happiness inequality is found both between and within …

social policies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined. The limitations of a social policy that … livelihood approach is analysed and its potential to reduce poverty and inequality are considered. …

This paper investigates possible explanations for the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s …. While the static decompositions of inequality by household characteristics reveal that education and race of the household … head, as well as geographic location, can account for a substantial proportion of inequality levels, a dynamic …

; redistribution of resources and nurturing communitarian values. …